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ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2025

Survey sampling design in wave 1 of the Global Flourishing Study.

R Noah Padgett, Richard G Cowden, Manas Chattopadhyay, Ying Han, John Honohan, Zacc Ritter, Rajesh Srinivasan, Byron R Johnson, Tyler J VanderWeele

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Article in European journal of epidemiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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69 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

R Noah PadgettDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9114-3896
Richard G CowdenDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Manas ChattopadhyayGallup, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA.
Ying HanGallup, Inc., Ellicott City, MD, USA.
John HonohanGallup, Inc., Ossining, NY, USA.
Zacc RitterGallup, Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA.
Rajesh SrinivasanGallup, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA.
Byron R JohnsonInstitute for Studies of Religion, Department of Sociology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
Tyler J VanderWeeleDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. tvanderw@hsph.harvard.edu.

Funding

John Templeton Foundation 61665
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is an international collaboration to develop a publicly accessible data resource to promote global research on human flourishing. These data include over 200,000 participants from 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries and one territory designed to be nationally representative of the adult population. The GFS is intended as a longitudinal panel study with recruitment and empanelment for Wave 1 occurring between April 2022 and December 2023. Future waves of data collection will invite participants to complete a survey annually. The annual survey covers a robust set of measures on well-being, health, social, economic, political, religious, spiritual, psychological and demographic variables. The current paper describes the sampling methodology and weighting approaches used to project the samples to be nationally representative. Details are provided on interviewer training and data collection, probability and non-probability samples, creating weights, design effects, and future data collection stages.

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Data CollectionGlobal HealthAdultFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedResearch DesignSurveys and QuestionnairesCross-culturalFlourishingGlobalLongitudinalMethodologySurvey sampling

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PMID40146468
PMCPMC12145319

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