Happiness Analyzer Smartphone Application

Short Description: Understanding whether nationally representative datasets can be collected using apps to collect data is crucial. To address this question, we built a new happiness app. In the first year (2015), participants did not receive any reward, and in the second year (2016), a different group of participants received a 50 Euro Amazon voucher for their participation.

Methodological Details: The eight chapter of Ludwigs’ doctoral thesis contains a detailed report of the methodology. pdf

Incentives: In the first wave of the module (2015), participants did not get any reward for using the study app. In the second wave (2016), they were offered a 50 Euro Amazon voucher for using the app.

Available Papers

• Ludwigs, Kai, Richard Lucas, Ruut Veenhoven, David Richter, and Lidia Arends. 2019. Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel. Applied Research in Quality of Life (online first). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09723-2 );

• Ludwigs, Kai. 2018. The Happiness Analyzer: A New Technique for Measuring Subjective Well-Being (thesis). Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Contact	Syear	Respondents	Dataset	Variables	Availability	Field	Method	Replication
Kai Ludwigs (Happiness Research Organisation), Richard E. Lucas (Michigan State University), Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands)	2016	~2760	inno	ihamob, ihaapp, ihaapph, ihaappev, ihaappev1, ihamobbs, im_hap2016, ihamobsp	04/2019	Psychology	Experience sampling & day reconstruction method