as a metric for understanding happiness.
The information gathering stage was far from easy.
For many communities, this metric resulted in the average daily earnings of a few U.S. dollars per person.
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They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale.
This primarily comes from the strength of interpersonal relationships and an assessment of ones social standing.
But social relations do not necessarily go together with wealth.
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