All chapters
Every chapter in the book, filterable by data source. Each opens in the reader.
About this book
The book never asks “what is the happiness number?” Well-being is plural, and its measures routinely disagree. Each chapter asks instead where, for whom, and by how much a given force matters — and stays honest about size: most effects are real but small, relationships and health tend to beat money, and a clean null is a finding.
Four ways to be well
Evaluative
How you rate your life as a whole — the Cantril ladder, “how happy are you these days,” life satisfaction.
Experiential
How your day actually felt — enjoyment, worry, sadness, stress, anger “a lot of the day yesterday.”
Domain
Satisfaction with a specific part of life — your finances, your health, your standard of living.
Eudaimonic
Meaning and agency — the sense of freedom, purpose, and a fair shot at a better life.
The data
Every figure is computed by a reproducible script and traced to a per-chapter claims.json; weighting follows each survey’s own regime, and evaluative and experiential measures are never conflated.