‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’ Culture | The Guardian

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How often do you get angry? Are you prone to envy? Are you rich in goats? These are the questions Amber Kumar Gurung is employed by the Bhutan government to ask its citizens.

Along with his colleague, fellow “happiness surveyor” Guna Raj Kuikel, he then calculates each subject’s general wellbeing, assigns them a score out of 10 and feeds it into the country’s gross national happiness index.

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