{"id":221,"date":"2011-08-01T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:25","slug":"happiness-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2011\/08\/01\/happiness-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left\">This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National Statistician&#8217;s Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/cci\/article.asp?id=2718\">http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/cci\/article.asp?id=2718<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\u00a0On the same theme:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">OECD better life index\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org\/\">http:\/\/www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org\/<\/a> has created an interactive tool to allow citizens to compare well-being across 34 countries. It uses 11 dimensions including material living conditions and quality of life: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\u00a0Also try the mappiness index <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappiness.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.mappiness.org.uk\/<\/a> which is mapping levels of happiness across the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">The World Database of happiness research <a href=\"http:\/\/worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl\/\">http:\/\/worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl\/<\/a> directed by: Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam provides free access to a bibliography of articles in academic journals plus a database of measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National Statistician&#8217;s Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being: http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/cci\/article.asp?id=2718 \u00a0On the same theme: OECD better life index\u00a0 http:\/\/www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org\/ has created an interactive tool to allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[57,243,98],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-happiness","tag-sociology","tag-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}