Agenda: Who, What, Where, Why– 45 min- 1 hour Lunch: Please come back in 40 min Exercise – 30 min Group Discussion – 40 min Wrap-up - 10 min
Part 2: Who, What, Where, Why
Where?
Defining the Happiness Ini8a8ve
Origins in Bhutan grossna.onalhappiness.com
• Subjec.ve and Objec.ve indicators • 9 domains (not work experience) • All domains weighted equally • Objec.ve indicators weighted higher that subjec.ve
Psychological wellbeing
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010
Material wellbeing
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010
Environment
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010
Sufficiency rated for each of the 33 indicator
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010
Measuring Happiness Bhutan
Policies & Alloca8on of Resources 1. Natural
Environment 2. Mindfulness in
schools 3. Democracy
Brazil – Susan Andrews
Youth in the Community Wellbeing Measurement Local Government Conferences
Town Mee.ngs Youth Development-‐
Sustainability, Happiness and Love
United Kingdom “To those who say this sounds like a distraction from the serious business of government, I say finding out what will improve lives and acting on it is the serious business of government.
"We'll continue to measure gross domestic product. But it is high time we admitted that, taken on its own, GDP is an incomplete way of measuring a country's progress.” – Prime Minister David Cameron
Surveyed 165,000 people between April 2011 and March 2012
Victoria BC
France Sarkozy commissioned a study by Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen.
The French National Statistics office included a chapter on how to measure wellbeing in its Social Portrait of France Report.
China The "Happiness Index", compiled by the Pingdingshan City Statistics Bureau (PCSB), comprises traditional indicators such as disposable residential income and the ratio of expenditure on science, education, culture, health and sports.
The Happiness Index
take the survey: http://happycounts.org/survey/GNH-es
Happiness Report Card
What?
A new economic paradigm (?)
UN Resolu8on Towards a Holis.c Approach to Sustainable Development
Key issue/irresolvable dilemma? Growth
How do you define happiness? The 10 Domains of Happiness & SWL and affect
Areas of focus in Our Common Future, 1987
Defining Happiness Wellbeing Sa.sfac.on with life Sustainability – holis.cally
• Purpose • government • life
• Granularity • defines issues
• Capture the unobservable
Why do we need a subjec8ve measure?
- hurting or thriving • “guide societies toward desirable futures” • experimenting society
• Inclusivity • people tune out objective data • people are the data – personal assessment
• Origins • Bhutan • San Francisco State University
• Crea.ve Commons • Methodology
• Bhutan • Composite of major wellbeing surveys • Gathered data • Set scope -‐ comprehensive and efficient • Gathered 5 ques.ons for each domain
with highest correla.on to wellbeing • Tested for validity • Ran random sample of US popula.on
The Survey
• What is a Subjec.ve Measure? measures
• Sa.sfac.on with life • Affect – posi.ve and nega.ve emo.ons • Domain sa.sfac.on
captures • Evalua.ons • Experiences • Time use • Preferences • Needs
The Survey
• Opt In: • Dedicated URL
• Privacy code: • Individuals • Organiza.ons
• Data analysis • Aggregate • Further analysis (report)
• Con.nual availability online for use • Individual profiles • Taking ac.on
• Outreach: • Languages spoken by immigrants and refugees
• Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog • Bridges and partners
The Survey
• Modifying the survey: • modules • 12 -‐ 15 min
• Representa.ve survey • Contract with Pollster • Survey money +
demographic analysis • Conduct your own –
how to guide
The Survey
Objec.ve Indicators Why Objec.ve Indicators? -‐ A balanced picture
-‐ and….. Two scenarios • Subjec.ve measure for environment high
• GHG emissions trending up, solid waste increasing • Policies & Programs may not be successful without
incen.ves, educa.on
• Subjec.ve measure for environment low • GHG emissions trending up, solid waste increasing
• Greater reliance on collabora.ons and partnerships may lead to higher success rates
Objec.ve Indicators A few of the issues: • Number of indicators • Reliability
• Data collec.on method – secondary, primary, partners
• Timely • Relevance
• Reflect the reality of users • Useful to user – policy, CBO, media…
• Scalable • Consistency
Objec.ve Indicators Material Well-‐being
-‐ Poverty Rate
-‐ County Gross Domes.c Product
Environmental Quality
-‐ Green House Gas Emissions
-‐ Air Quality
-‐ Solid Waste
Governance
-‐ Voter turnout as a percent of eligible voters
-‐ Tax fairness: Income tax and consump.on taxes: percent of total taxes paid by income levels
Educa.on
-‐ High School gradua.on rates
-‐ Government spending on early educa.on: K-‐8
Community Vitality
-‐ Volunteer rates
-‐ Violent Crime rates
Cultural Vitality -‐ Mul.-‐racial neighborhoods
(gentrifica.on, social cohesion, inclusiveness)
-‐Public funding of arts and sports
Objec.ve Indicators Time Balance
-‐ Commute .me (Mean Commute Time)
-‐ Work Time (extreme working hours, 50 a week or over, average annual hours of work, vaca.on days)
Work Experience
-‐ Unemployment Rate
-‐ Average Compensa.on
Psychological Health
-‐ Domes.c Violence Rates (child and spouse)
-‐ -‐ Rates of mental illness per 1000 popula.ons (issue of undiagnosed, of changes of defini.on in DSM)
Human Health
-‐ Health Index from Mapping of America ( life expectancy, infant mortality and people without health insurance)
-‐ Obesity
Objec.ve Indicators Methodology:
Review of leading community based objec.ve indicators
Compile indicators to domains Crowd sourcing for relevance and fit
Refined by team Advisory commilee feedback
Con.nual improvement
Consistency
Partnership – GPI?
Other Objec.ve Indicators: Genuine Progress Indicator – Redefining Progress
ADD Housework, Volunteering, and Higher Education
ADJUST Income Distribution Changes in Leisure Time - Lifespan of Consumer Durables & Public Infrastructure
SUBTRACT Resource Depletion Pollution Long-Term Environmental Damage Crime Defensive Expenditures - Dependence on Foreign Assets
Canadian Index of Wellbeing
ciw.ca/en/TheCanadianIndexOfWellbeing.html
Canadian Index of Wellbeing
ciw.ca/en/TheCanadianIndexOfWellbeing.html
Objec.ve Indicators To gather data for the objec.ve indicators for your area:
• Determine objec.ve indicators for your area. The Happiness Ini.a.ve provides suggested indicators. Use indicators already in place if you can
• Determine the geographic scope that you want to gather data for.
• Where you can, collect data to the smallest “grain” (e.g. neighborhoods, city, county) that you can. Then collect data for the scope you have determined.
• If no data is available for your region, note this (rather than leaving the field blank) as the unavailability of data is informa.ve
Objec.ve Indicators
• Who Collects Data: team, commilee, intern, grad student, college class, etc.
• Colle8ng Data: Collec.ng data can take a great deal of .me. It is important the data is reliable. If you can, work with an agency that is already collec.ng data or a university or college so you know the data you provide is good informa.on.
• Objec8ve Indicators Advisory CommiTee: Convene an objec.ve indicator advisory commilee to help iden.fy data sources and review your data.
Who?
Lord Layard Bri.sh Economist – focus on happiness
economics
Founder of Ac.ons for Happiness
Mar.n Seligman Posi.ve Psychology
v. behavorism & DMS focus on what is wrong
Authen.c Happiness
publica.on U of Penn
Director of Posi.ve Psychology Center
Mul.ple Surveys
Jeffrey Sacks Economist, Author, Advisor to
Governments
Director of Earth Ins.tute for Colombia University – SD advocate at Universi.es
Special Advisor to Sec Gen Ban-‐ Moon for MDG
2002-‐2006 Director of UN Millennium Project worked on MDG Goals
Ed Diener -‐ Psychologist
“Dr. Happiness” Gallup
Money and Happiness SWL Scale
(in our survey)
Research Community
John Helliwell Economist – UBC
OECD – Trust and Wellbeing
Happiness – Community and Trust
World Happiness Report
Other Surveys Gallup Healthways Poll
Other Surveys OECD Beler Life Index
Other Surveys World Values Survey
Other Surveys European Social Survey
The Happiness Movement: par.ng thought
Indu
stry Life stage
The Happiness Movement: par.ng thought
Why?
Exercise Exercise: The Why: What came up for you in this presenta.on? What seemed important? What is confusing? What needs to be communicated? What needs to happen in the movement? Form groups of 3 or 4, go in round robin Assign note take and assign spokesperson Decide together on 1 or 2 points to share (don’t worry if you miss important points, other groups will have them) Back in group; spokesperson tell the 1 or 2 points to share (only spokesperson talks)
note: many resources in your packet note taker will share points