World Database of Happiness: Uses for Comparing Across Cultures

The World Database of Happiness is an online archive used to store the results of empirical research on happiness in the sense of life satisfaction. Findings are described in a standard format and terminology in electronic ‘finding pages’, each of which has a unique internet address. Findings can be sorted by place and time and allow comparison across times and places regarding (1) how happy people are, (2) determinants of happiness, and (3) consequences of enjoying life or not.