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Global Well-being Indicators Dataset
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About
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey dedicated to understanding the state of global happiness. This dataset specifically covers the 2024 report, complementing historical data from 2005 to 2024. It serves as a vital resource for governments, organisations, and civil society, enabling them to utilise happiness indicators for policy-making and to assess national progress. The report integrates insights from leading experts across various fields, including economics, psychology, and public policy, to explain both personal and national variations in happiness.
Columns
- Country name: The name of the respective country.
- Regional indicator: The geographical or cultural region to which the country belongs.
- Ladder score: The primary happiness score for each country, based on responses to the Cantril Ladder question. Respondents imagine a ladder from 0 (worst possible life) to 10 (best possible life).
- Upper whisker: The upper bound of the happiness score, representing part of the confidence interval.
- Lower whisker: The lower bound of the happiness score, representing part of the confidence interval.
- Log GDP per capita: The natural logarithm of the country's Gross Domestic Product per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) to account for differing living costs.
- Social support: The national average of binary (Yes/No) responses to a question about having relatives or friends to rely on during challenging times.
- Healthy life expectancy: The average number of years a newborn infant is expected to live in good health, derived from mortality rates and life expectancy at various ages.
- Freedom to make life choices: The national average of responses indicating satisfaction with the freedom to choose what to do with one's life.
- Generosity: A measure derived from the residual of regressing the national average of charitable donations on GDP per capita.
- Perceptions of corruption: The national average of survey responses regarding the perceived extent of corruption within the government and businesses.
- Dystopia + residual: Dystopia is a hypothetical country with the unhappiest people, used as a comparative benchmark. This score combines the Dystopia score with the unexplained residual for each country, ensuring a positive combined score and providing a baseline.
- Positive affect: The national average of responses concerning positive emotions experienced on the previous day.
- Negative affect: The national average of responses concerning negative emotions experienced on the previous day.
Distribution
This dataset is typically provided in a CSV format. The specific "World-happiness-report-2024.csv" file is approximately 13.31 KB in size. It contains 12 columns and includes data for 143 unique countries. While 'Country name' and 'Regional indicator' have complete data for all 143 entries, other columns such as 'Log GDP per capita', 'Social support', 'Healthy life expectancy', 'Freedom to make life choices', 'Generosity', 'Perceptions of corruption', 'Dystopia + residual', 'Positive affect', and 'Negative affect' have 3 missing values, resulting in 140 valid entries for those indicators.
Usage
This dataset is ideally suited for:
- Informing Policy-Making: Assisting governments and organisations in developing policies based on well-being indicators.
- Assessing National Progress: Evaluating the advancement of nations through happiness measurements.
- Academic Research: Supporting studies in economics, psychology, and social sciences on factors influencing happiness.
- Analysing Global Trends: Examining how happiness and its various contributing factors evolve across the world and over time.
- Comparative Analysis: Comparing happiness levels and their drivers between different countries and regions.
Coverage
The dataset offers global coverage, encompassing data from 143 distinct countries across various regions. The time range for the reports covered spans from 2005 to 2024, with particular emphasis on the 2024 data. The data largely consists of national averages, and specific demographic breakdowns are not explicitly provided within the dataset.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Government Agencies: For national policy development and well-being initiatives.
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs): To guide their social programmes and advocacy efforts.
- Researchers and Academics: From fields such as economics, psychology, public health, and statistics for various analytical and theoretical studies.
- Data Scientists and Analysts: For building predictive models, conducting statistical analyses, and creating data visualisations related to global happiness.
- Journalists and Media Professionals: For reporting on societal well-being, global happiness trends, and comparative country analyses.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- World Happiness Report 2024 Data
- Global Well-being Indicators Dataset
- National Happiness Score Data
- Annual World Happiness Survey
- Happiness Index by Country (2005-2024)
Attributes
Original Data Source: Global Well-being Indicators Dataset
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