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Action for HappinessMember Survey Results – Dec 2010
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#1 The vast majority (74%) of members joined in order to help create a happier society (for themselves and others)
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Q: What made you sign up to join Action for Happiness? *
* Note: for many survey respondents references to “Action for Happiness” originally read “Movement for Happiness”
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#2 Members feel our main priorities should be to:
Help people take action to increase their own happiness
Encourage more altruistic behaviour
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Q: How important should these different activities be for us?
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#3 Members are similar to the wider population (UK) in terms of their levels of happiness, with 58% “quite happy”
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Q: Taking all things together, how happy would you say you are?
Note: this is similar to UK-wide data: 36% VH; 57% QH; 7% U (Source: Layard, 2005)
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#4 Members most want to take action to increase happiness:
Across society
For their families
For themselves
In their local communities
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Q: In which areas would you like to take action to increase happiness?
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#5 Around half of members have been through a major life change with a positive outcome
(a “good life crisis”)
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Q: Have you had a major life change with a positive outcome?
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#6 Around a third of members are very keen to start an Action for Happiness group with other members
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Q: Would you form a group as part of Action for Happiness?
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#7 The most popular ideas for group activities are:
Organising local events/seminars
Action group in the local community
Happiness study/discussion group with friends
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Q: Would you join any of these groups if they existed?
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#8 Members had most commonly heard about Action for Happiness via:
Newspaper or magazine
Online news/article
Internet search
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Q: Where did you first hear about Action for Happiness?
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#8 Around 75% of members use Facebook (45% regularly)
Only 30% use Twitter(10% regularly)
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Q: How often do you use the following websites?
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#9 Members have a very wide range of areas of professional interest. The most common are:
Therapy/coaching
Education
Health
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Q: If you’re interested in happiness in connection with your work, what is your field of work?
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#10 Members had passionate views on what happiness means for them
We’ve used these to create an inspiring word cloud…
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Q: What does happiness mean to you?