It has become important to analyze the present status of the field and assess measuring techniques.
The term "subjective well-being" describes how people see and assess their lives, as well as certain areas and activities within them.
Researchers have already found this data to be useful in gaining insights into the emotional states and experiences of members of various groups who are active in various activities, at various stages of life, and in various familial and social systems. Moreover, research has demonstrated links between people's self-reported, subjectively appraised emotions and their actions. Long-term studies on subjective well-being have revealed fresh insights into the human condition.
Policy makers, national statistical agencies, academic researchers, the media, and the general public have all shown a marked increase in interest in the subject over the past ten years due to its potential to shed light on the economic, social, and health conditions of populations and to inform policy decisions in these areas.
The application of this metric in census data is explored in Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Pain, and Other Aspects of Experience. It has become important to analyze the present status of the field and assess measuring techniques. We should focus on creating a list of varieties of potential uses for experienced well-being data, including cost-benefit analyses of health care delivery, planning for travel and commuting, environmental valuation, resource monitoring for outdoor recreation, and even evaluation of end-of-life care alternatives.
Adopting subjective well-being measures in official government surveys are especially important to inform social and economic policies, and consider whether the research that these policies are based on have enough advanced learnings to address such issues. The usage of these metrics are becoming increasingly valuable. Subjective Well-Being finds that, whether used to assess the consequence of people's situations and policies that might affect them or to explore determinants of outcomes, contextual and covariate data are needed alongside the subjective well-being measures.
All in all, to understand the well-being of an expansive and collective geography, policy makers have to look deep into the collective psyche of the demography of the place and put enough attention towards those subjective factors to ensure that the subject well-being of the people who are at the receiving end of these policies, are well maintained.
Human suffering is indeed a subjective experience but the factors that drive those sufferings are common, the triggers might not affect every individual equally, but we should make no mistakes about the existence of the triggers.
