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What’s Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator?

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Measures of subjective well-being, and especially life evaluations, or judgments about how happy people are with their lives as a whole, enrich and empower social indicators research. They do this by requiring other social indicators as explanatory variables and providing a coherent encompassing framework within which the relative importance of other social indicators can be established.

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  1. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, 6000 Iona Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1L4, Canada

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Helliwell, J.F. What’s Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator?. Soc Indic Res 135, 965–968 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1549-9

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