Structure of the collections

The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life.
It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
World literature on Happiness
Selection on subject
  Bibliography   and    Directory       
                      Selection of empirical studies      Selection on valid measurement: Item Bank
   Abstracting and classification of findings  
                                   
How happy people are, distributional findings
Happiness in Nations  ,  Happiness in Publics
What goes together with happiness
Correlational Findings
   Listing of comparable findings in Nations   
States of Nations   ,   Trends in Nations

Size of the collections
1233 Happiness measures (Item Bank)
4287 Nations surveys in 212 Nations
149 Distinguished publics in 1228 studies
12411 Correlational findings in 1232 studies