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<div align="center" id="aboutContainer">
<div id="aboutContent">
<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>This project is a collaboration between <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyronecragg">Tyrone Cragg</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamculligan">Liam Culligan</a>. If you have any queries or suggestions or would like to get in touch regarding other projects, please contact us at <a href="mailto:contact@worldwellbeingexplorer.com" target="_blank">contact@worldwellbeingexplorer.com</a>.</p>
<p>This app has been developed to provide an open-source, user-friendly interface to explore well-being throughout the world. Well-being at country level is assessed using the concept of happiness, a measure by which social progress across countries can be compared. This data is sourced from the <a href="http://worldhappiness.report/" target="_blank">2016 World Happiness Report</a> produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. At city level, well-being is assessed using the concept of liveability, a measure by which the living conditions of cities across the world can be compared. This data is sourced from the <a href="http://www.eiu.com/liveability2015" target="_blank">Global Liveability Ranking 2015</a> produced by the Economist Economic Intelligence Unit. Continents and regions are defined in accordance with the World Bank development indicators. All of the data used is publicly available.</p>
<h3>Happiness</h3>
<p>Simply put, six key variables, which have been broadly found in literature to be important in explaining differences in life evaluations at a national level, are used to calculate the happiness score for a country on a scale of 0 to 10:<br></p>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Variable</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>GDP per Capita</td>
<td>The natural logarithm of Gross Domestic Product per Capita is measured in terms of Purchasing Power Parity adjusted to constant 2011 international dollars, according to the World Development Indicators released by the World Bank in December 2015.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Social Support</td>
<td>The national average response to the Gallup World Poll (GWP) question “If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?”</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Healthy Life Expectancy</td>
<td>The time series of healthy life expectancy at birth constructed from data from the World Health Organisation and the World Development Indicators. First, ratios of healthy life expectancy to life expectancy in 2012 are determined using both sources. Then, the country-specific ratios are applied to other years to generate healthy life expectancy.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Freedom to Make Life Choices</td>
<td>The national average of binary responses to the GWP question “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?”</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Generosity</td>
<td>The residual of regressing the national average of GWP responses to the question, “Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?” on GDP per capita.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perceptions of Corruption</td>
<td>The average of binary responses to two GWP questions:<br>
1) “Is corruption widespread throughout the government or not?”<br>
2) “Is corruption widespread within businesses or not?”<br>
If data for government corruption is missing, the perception of business corruption is used as the overall corruption-perception measure.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Social support, GDP per Capita and Healthy Life Expectancy are the three most important factors.</p>
<h3>Liveability</h3>
<p>The liveability score for a city is calculated using category weights, which themselves are divided into equally weighted subcategories to ensure that the score covers as many indicators as possible. Indicators are scored as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. These are then weighted to produce a rating, where 100 means that liveability in a city is ideal and 1 means that it is intolerable.</p>
<p>For qualitative variables, an “Economist Intelligence Unit rating” (EIU rating) is awarded based on the judgment of in-house expert country analysts and a field correspondent based in each city. For quantitative variables, a rating is calculated based on the relative performance of a location using external data sources.</p>
<h2>Liveability Score</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Category</th>
<th>Weight (%)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Stability</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Healthcare</td>
<td>20</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Culture and Environment</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Education</td>
<td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Infrastructure</td>
<td>20</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Category: Stability</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Indicator</th>
<th>Source</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Prevalence of petty crime</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prevalence of violent crime</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Threat of terror</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Threat of military conflict</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Threat of civil unrest/conflict</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Category: Healthcare</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Indicator</th>
<th>Source</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Availability of private healthcare</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of private healthcare</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Availability of public healthcare</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of public healthcare</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Availability of over-the-counter drugs</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>General healthcare indicators</td>
<td>Adopted from the World Bank</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Category: Culture and Environment</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Indicator</th>
<th>Source</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Humidity/temperature rating</td>
<td>Adapted from average weather conditions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Discomfort of climate to travellers</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Level of corruption</td>
<td>Adapted from Transparency International</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Social or religious restrictions</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Level of censorship</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sporting availability</td>
<td>EIU field rating of 3 sport indicators</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cultural availability</td>
<td>EIU field rating of 4 cultural indicators</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Food and drink</td>
<td>EIU field rating of 4 cultural indicators</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Consumer goods and services</td>
<td>EIU rating of product availability</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Category: Education</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Indicator</th>
<th>Source</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Availability of private education</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of private education</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Public education indicators</td>
<td>Adapted from the World Bank</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Category: Infrastructure</h2>
<table class="about">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Indicator</th>
<th>Source</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Quality of road network</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of public transport</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of international links</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Availability of good quality housing</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of energy provision</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of water provision</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quality of telecommunications</td>
<td>EIU rating</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>References</h3>
<ul>
<li>The shapefile to produce the interactive map is provided by <a href="http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/" target="_blank">Bjorn Sandvik</a><br>
</li>
<li>The coordinates of cities were obtained from <a href="http://simplemaps.com/" target="_blank">Simplemaps</a><br>
</li>
<li>The 2016 World Happiness Report data was obtained from their <a href="http://worldhappiness.report/" target="_blank">official website</a>
</li>
<li>The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Rankings for 2015 were obtained from <a href="http://media.heraldsun.com.au/" target="_blank">the Herald Sun</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>