Part2 whowhatwhenwhere

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