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How to be happy: Putting well-being on the agenda

By Liz Else

13 April 2011

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Happiness on the agenda

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Governments are beginning to take the science of happiness seriously, but are they ready for the tough questions it will raise?

NEXT week, 200,000 questionnaires will be going out to homes across the UK from the Office for National Statistics. They will include four simple questions: Overall, how satisfied are you with your life nowadays? Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday? Overall, how anxious did you feel yesterday? Overall, to what extent do you feel the things you do in…

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