[LINK] World Happiness and Goodwill

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

The World Giving Index (WGI) is compiled using data gathered by Gallup,
and, ranks 153 countries in the World according to how charitable their 
populations are. 

The Charities Aid Foundation claims that WGI is the largest study into 
charitable behaviour across the globe. The first edition was released in 
September 2010, with Australia, New Zealand and Ireland emerging as the 
top most charitable nations. (Australia is ranked first again this year).

The survey finds that, across the globe, happiness is seen as a greater 
influence on giving money than wealth.

Methodology

The WGI is based on data from Gallup's WorldView World Poll which is an 
ongoing research project carried out in 153 countries that together 
represent 95% of the world's population. In most countries surveyed 1,000 
questionnaires are completed by a representative sample of individuals 
living in urban centres. In some large countries such as China and Russia 
samples of at least 2,000 were collected, while in a small number of 
countries, where polling is difficult, the poll covered 500 to 1,000 
people but still featured a representative sample.

Respondents were over 15 years old and samples were probability-based. 
Surveys were carried out by telephone or face-to-face depending on the 
country’s telephone coverage. Gallup asked people which of the following 
three charitable acts they had undertaken in the past month:

1 donated money to an organisation?
2 volunteered time to an organisation?
3 helped a stranger, or someone they didn’t know who needed help?

Above Info From: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Giving_Index>

2012 Results: <https://www.cafonline.org/PDF/WorldGivingIndex2012WEB.pdf>

--

Cheers
Stephen