For more information on the European database on subjective well-being, see:

Burger, M.J., Sarracino, F., De Plaen, D., & Greyling, T. (2026) A harmonized panel dataset of subjective well-being for European regions. Data in Brief. Version 1.0 is freely available at https://osf.io/j62v9 

For more information on subjective well-being as headline indicator and happy life years, see:

Burger, M. J., Courchesne, S., Greyling, T., O’Connor, K. J., Rossouw, S., Sarracino, F., & Veenhoven, R. (2026). Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1-27.

Sarracino, F. (2026) Why economics needs subjective well-being. Journal of Wellbeing Economics, 1(1), 10-16. 

Veenhoven, R. (1996). Happy life-expectancy: A comprehensive measure of quality-of-life in nations. Social Indicators Research, 39(1), 1-58. 

For more information on using dominance analysis in prioritization, see:

Burger, M.J. & Sugati, A. (2026) Beyond benchmarking: Using subjective well-being to improve urban decision-making.