The purpose of this project is to analyze the significant factors that contribute to happiness
and how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to evaluate the progress of countries and their
governments. These factors include social support, life expectancy at birth, freedom to make life choices,
generosity, etc. Quantitative measures of happiness can be used in cognitive life evaluations, emotional
reports, assessing the state of global happiness and causes of miseries and to help guide
governments administer public policies. It can be used to achieve a deeper insight into how
socio-economic factors can be causally related to the happiness of the nations’ populous.
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. It is published annually by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It contains articles, and rankings of national happiness based on respondent ratings of their own lives, which the report also correlates with various life factors. The happiness scores and rankings use data from the Gallup World Poll conducted in over 150 countries. The scores are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This question, known as the Cantril ladder, asks respondents to think of a ladder with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0 and to rate their own current lives on that scale.
Figuring out what factors make people happy can lead us to prosper better as nations. A well-being perspective offers potential advantages, including insights into what matters to people directly, and a comprehensive and relatively non-judgmental view on development. Several well-being measurement scores provide comprehensive sets of indicators, which can be seen as a great advantage over approaches focusing only on certain factors, say income or health. Also, a well-being approach to development presents the potential to overcome the powerful distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries. This would be the case if a well-being lens opens space to recognize, rather than judge, culturally-specific values and development processes. The UN’s 2011 resolution puts it well, “The pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal”.
The data has been collected from https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/ which in turn gathers data from World Gallup Poll. The rankings generated in this project are calculated using OLS regression and are not reflective of actual rankings, as described by the official report, in any way.
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The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. It is published annually by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It contains articles, and rankings of national happiness based on respondent ratings of their own lives, which the report also correlates with various life factors. The happiness scores and rankings use data from the Gallup World Poll conducted in over 150 countries. The scores are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This question, known as the Cantril ladder, asks respondents to think of a ladder with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0 and to rate their own current lives on that scale.
Figuring out what factors make people happy can lead us to prosper better as nations. A well-being perspective offers potential advantages, including insights into what matters to people directly, and a comprehensive and relatively non-judgmental view on development. Several well-being measurement scores provide comprehensive sets of indicators, which can be seen as a great advantage over approaches focusing only on certain factors, say income or health. Also, a well-being approach to development presents the potential to overcome the powerful distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries. This would be the case if a well-being lens opens space to recognize, rather than judge, culturally-specific values and development processes. The UN’s 2011 resolution puts it well, “The pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal”.
The data has been collected from https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/ which in turn gathers data from World Gallup Poll. The rankings generated in this project are calculated using OLS regression and are not reflective of actual rankings, as described by the official report, in any way.
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