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Happiness levels among Abu Dhabi residents rose to 7.69 on a scale of one to 10, up from 7.63 last year, according to Abu Dhabi’s Department of Community Development’s latest Quality of Life survey.
How do we measure happiness, you ask? The survey tracks over 92k individuals across 14 OECD indicators, including housing, job prospects, family income, work-life balance, health, education, environmental quality, and personal security. The OECD indicator for happiness evaluates “life satisfaction” on a scale of 1 to 10, according to the OECD better life index.
Feelings of safety and family life satisfaction remained the same: Some 93.6% of participants felt safe in the emirate, while three-fourths said they felt they could rely on their relatives and friends. 73% of participants reported feeling content with the amount of quality time they spent with family.
70.6% of participants reported satisfaction with their current housing. Participants’ satisfaction with the quality of life averaged a total score of 6.94 out of 10, with 34.3% of heads of households satisfied with family income, and 64.7% of employed participants satisfied with their jobs.
