Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level

Edsel Beja () and David Yap

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 114, issue 2, 637 pages

Abstract: A procedure for identifying the happy individuals in society is indispensable to efforts to align public policy with the needs of the citizenry. Individual self-reports on happiness, however, must first meet the dual requirements of cardinality and (at least) relative interpersonal comparability before they can be used in conjunction with a counting procedure to give a meaningful estimate of group level happiness. The paper demonstrates a count-based measure of group happiness that exhibits these desired qualities using data from the Philippines. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Counting; Individual; Group; Happiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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