by Human Flourishing Program
The wave one dataset from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) initiative is now available to researchers.
The GFS, a partnership among researchers at Baylor University and Harvard University, Gallup, and the Center for Open Science (COS), is a $43.4 million, five-year study of more than 200,000 individuals in over 20 countries. The GFS data will become a resource for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and educators worldwide. While several studies have tracked respondents over time in a single country, the scope and breadth of GFS is unprecedented.
What is the Global Flourishing Study?
GFS is a five-year study of over 200,000 people in over 20 countries to measure global human flourishing in six areas:
- Happiness and life satisfaction
- Mental and physical health
- Meaning and purpose
- Character and virtue
- Close social relationships
- Material and financial stability
It is the largest study to look at factors contributing to people and societies flourishing. Several previous studies have tracked respondents over time in a single country. However, the scope and breadth of GFS is unprecedented.
GFS is a partnership among:
- Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion
- Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program at IQSS
- Gallup
- COS
Get Access to Global Flourishing Study Data
You can access GFS data in three ways:
- Preregistration: Preregister an analysis plan now to receive access to the wave one dataset at cos.io/gfs.
- Registered Report: Access is also available to those who submit a Registered Report to a journal. With Registered Reports, a journal reviews the preregistration plan and agrees to publish the findings regardless of the outcome, reducing publication bias.
- Public release: Those wishing to receive the data without preregistration can access the non-sensitive data for each wave a year after the initial release.
For more information on GFS’s data access, visit: cos.io/gfs.
For more information about GFS, visit globalflourishingstudy.com.
Founded in 2016, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science aims to study and promote human flourishing, and to develop systematic approaches to the synthesis of knowledge across disciplines. The program’s research contributes to the broad question of how knowledge from the quantitative social sciences can be integrated with that of the humanities on questions of human flourishing and how best to carry out this synthesis of knowledge across disciplines.
