Take the Seattle Happiness Survey

This is a project of the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative and Sustainable Seattle, with Take Back Your Time and the Compassionate Action Network

Want to help Seattle develop an index of our collective happiness?  An on-line survey offers you an enjoyable way to learn just how well you are doing in the nine domains of happiness identified by researchers around the world. These include:

1. psychological well-being
2. physical health
3. time or work-life balance
4. social connection and community vitality
5. education
6. access to arts, culture and recreation
7. environmental quality and access to nature
8. good governance
9. material well-being

 When you complete the survey, you will receive an instantaneous well-being score for each of these domains, and you will be able to compare your score with the median results for others who have taken the survey. You will find that the 135 questions in this survey will encourage you to think about your life in new ways and about what you can do to be happier.

This survey takes around 20 minutes to complete and you cannot stop and start over, so do the survey when you have a period of free time. It is the length of the survey that allows it to give you a comprehensive picture of your well-being in comparison to others.

Overall data from the survey will be analyzed and provided to media but your individual data will not be revealed to others. Demographic data is requested so overall results can be analyzed, but it does not ask for your name, address, etc. Your privacy will be protected.

Find out more about the project and take the survey: http://sustainableseattle.org/sahi