{"id": 1210923, "name": "Share of respondents who did not answer the question about life improvement", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-04-09T10:36:22.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T13:43:50.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2023-2024", "datasetId": 7791, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "wb_improvement_na_share", "catalogPath": "grapher/gfs/2026-04-08/gfs_wave_two/gfs_wave_two#wb_improvement_na_share", "descriptionShort": "Share of respondents who did not answer the question \"Imagine a [ladder](#dod:cantril-ladder) with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The 10 at the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the 0 at the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. Take your best guess: On which step of the ladder do you think you will stand in about five years from now?\"", "descriptionProcessing": "- All averages are calculated as the mean of the valid responses to the question.\n- For the first wave of responses, we assigned the year 2023 to all responses, even though a small number of responses (~15%) were collected in 2024 or 2022. This will make it easier to compare developments over the different waves of the survey.", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "12519188731048540780", "metadataChecksum": "5863462930169163762", "datasetName": "Global Flourishing Study", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-04-08", "nonRedistributable": true, "display": {"unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "roundingMode": "significantFigures", "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {}, "descriptionKey": ["This data comes from the [Global Flourishing Study (GFS)](https://www.globalflourishingstudy.com/), a five-year longitudinal data collection and research collaboration between researchers at Baylor University, Harvard University and the Center for Open Science in cooperation with Gallup. The data covers more then 200,00 participants in more than 20 counties.", "No answer can mean one of three things: the respondent saw and skipped the question, the respondend refused to answer or the respondend answered with \"I don't know\".", "The GFS collects data annually from the same panel of respondents. While the goal is to survey the same people every year, some people might drop out of the survey and do not respond to later waves. This means the data in 2024 and the following years is from a subset of respondents who enrolled in the first year (2023)."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 65, "name": "Egypt", "code": "EGY"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 144, "name": "Hong Kong", "code": "HKG"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 129, "name": "Kenya", "code": "KEN"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 103, "name": "Nigeria", "code": "NGA"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 14305, "titleSnapshot": "Global Flourishing Study - Wave 2", "title": "Global Flourishing Study", "descriptionSnapshot": "Wave 2 includes the second year of survey data, with Y1 data collected in 2023 and Y2 follow-up data collected in 2024. The dataset covers 207,919 respondents across 23 countries.", "description": "The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is a five-year longitudinal data collection and research collaboration between researchers at Baylor University and Harvard University, in partnership with Gallup and the Center for Open Science (COS), and with the support of a consortium of funders. As part of this project, COS is making the data from the study an open access resource so researchers, journalists, policymakers, and educators worldwide can access detailed information about what makes for a flourishing life.\n\nThis initiative includes data collection for approximately 200,000 participants from 20+ geographically and culturally diverse countries and territories, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China (Hong Kong), Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. The study will obtain nationally representative data within each country, with collection on the same panel of individuals annually.\n\nGFS measures global human flourishing in six areas:\n\n  - Happiness and life satisfaction\n  - Mental and physical health\n  - Meaning and purpose\n  - Character and virtue\n  - Close social relationships\n  - Material and financial stability\n\nThe GFS is being led by principal investigators Byron R. Johnson, Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, and Tyler J. VanderWeele, Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.", "producer": "Global Flourishing Study", "citationFull": "Johnson, B. R., Ritter, Z., Fogleman, A., Markham, L., Stankov, T., Srinivasan, R., Honohan, J., Ripley, A., Phillips, T.A., Wang, H., & VanderWeele, T. J. (2024, February 8). The Global Flourishing Study. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3JTZ8", "attributionShort": "GFS", "urlMain": "https://globalflourishingstudy.com/", "urlDownload": "https://osf.io/ge2x5/files/vrejf", "dateAccessed": "2026-04-08", "datePublished": "2026-04-08", "license": {"url": "https://osf.io/3jtz8/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}