Life in a Day (2011 film) part of the "elite" and to show the intricacy and strangeness of the seemingly mundane." Macdonald began his "Around the world in 80,000 clips" article in "The Guardian" by posing the questions, ""What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket?"" and explaining that "one day last summer, I asked ordinary people around the world to answer those three questions and spend a day filming their lives." The 80,000 individual clips received amounted to 4,500 hours of electronic footage. Macdonald explained that about 75% of the film's content came from people contacted through YouTube, traditional advertising, TV
Happy life expectancy Netherlands. He is also one of the chief critics of one of the most widely used QOL indexes, the Human Development Index (HDI) published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His 1996 paper "Happy Life-Expectancy, A Comprehensive Measure of Quality-of Life in Nations", which appeared in the journal "Social Indicators Research", proposed an alternative QOL index, called happy life expectancy (HLE). HLE may be a better indicator of happiness as it relies on subjective measures of happiness, as opposed to the largely materialistic measures that go into creating the HDI. The HDI measures average achievements based on three dimensions: