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Yet the prospect of letting local government and employers access wellbeing data fills some residents with dread.
For example, in a 2013 study published in Psychological Science, Angelina Sutin and colleagues looked at self-reported wellbeing data from three different groups of people – young, middle-aged, and older – across 30 years.
Statisticians analysed personal wellbeing data for more than 300,000 adults in the UK, collected over three years from 2012 to 2015, and found that happiness and life satisfaction plummeted among respondents aged 35 and over.
Franz Buscha, principal research fellow, economics and quantitative methods, at the University of Westminster, merged daily weather data from the UK Met Office with individual level wellbeing data culled from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2008 and found no evidence that the often assumed relationship between sunshine and happiness existed.
There is a substantial opportunity to further develop these measures to create a series of robust and evidence-based liveability indices, which could be linked with existing health and wellbeing data to better inform urban planning policies within Australia and beyond.
There's even wellbeing data now to prove it.
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Given more data such as a heart rate monitor, pedometer and activity tracker, Google Now could add physical wellbeing information to its data set.
UNICEF piloted and is supporting CBE Ghana makes progress on child wellbeing but data shows that disparities still need to be bridged ACCRA, 30 January 2014 – A new premier source of data and information on child well-being has been released today by UNICEF to mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the child.
Therefore, a large-scale study into the causes of stability and change in wellbeing including data of over more than 2 measurement occasions is highly warranted.
Some countries, like Canada, have started to use wellbeing-related data to help re-design services for the elderly to include more social contact and informal networks.
Some decision-makers have their own ideas about how to use the Wellbeing Project's data: mayor Kevin McKeown (an opponent of those new residential buildings) mentions that its documentation of the high stress felt by residents of houses in the vicinity of Santa Monica airport will provide valuable evidence in his case against the city's obligation to run an airport at all.
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