The survey covered a broad range of quality of life topics and asks individuals about their home neighborhoods, disaster preparedness, food security, housing, family and community supports and resources, education, workplaces, physical and mental health, adverse childhood experiences, and access to services. 

• All adults living in Hawaiʻi were eligible to take the Community Survey. You did not need to be an official resident. 

• Hawaiʻi state government employees were eligible to take the State Worker survey. 

In this survey, you will be asked a series of multiple-choice and open-ended questions about the topics listed above. All questions are optional, and you may skip any sections that make you uncomfortable.

Completing this survey should take approximately 15-20 minutes.

Findings from this survey will assist in the creation of reports and dashboards that can identify strengths and challenges in critical topics affecting quality of life statewide. Policymakers, state agencies, providers, community organizations, advocacy groups, foundations, researchers, and many others will be able to access aggregate data tools to guide their decision-making for local policies, programs, and reforms. 

In addition, the Office of Wellness and Resilience will examine patterns and findings from aggregated state employee responses to improve worker well-being by building support for trauma-informed care training and technical assistance.

Your privacy is a top priority for us. We take great care in ensuring that we do not collect identifiable information from you. All of your responses will be held securely and anonymously by the university research team and all of our team members are required to be trained in policies and procedures to protect your confidentiality. We also plan to suppress small cell sizes in public-facing reports and dashboards. Both of these surveys have been approved by the Institutional Review Board. 

If you become stressed or uncomfortable answering any of the questions in the survey, you can skip the question or take a break. You can also stop taking the survey or you can withdraw from the project altogether. If you need further support, we have gathered a list of community wellness resources and listed them in the survey and on our website.

The Hawaiʻi Quality of Life and Workplace Wellness Survey is conducted by the Health Policy Initiative in the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 

This project is part of a collaboration with the Office of Wellness and Resilience, in the Office of the Governor, under the direction of Executive Director Tia L.R. Hartsock and Deputy Director Trina Orimoto, Ph.D. 

Jack Barile, Ph.D. serves as the Principal Investigator and is the Director of the Social Science Research Institute. As a Professor in Community Psychology, he has decades of experience examining ecological determinants of health. 

We are also fortunate to partner with a team of talented, ethical, staff and graduate students, who care deeply about community.

Individuals who are visually impaired have the option of completing the survey over the phone. Please call our office (808-956-6806) and a lab staff member will obtain verbal consent from you, read the survey aloud, and record your answers in the online form in real-time. 

Unfortunately, we have not translated the current version of the survey into additional languages. However, we hope to do this in the near future.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions or comments by filling out this form. You may also email Jack Barile, PhD (barile@hawaii.edu) or call our office at (808) 956-6806.

Go to www.health-study.com/ and click on the Dashboard link. Review the topic panel and select a topic for your results. To explore topics, you can access copies of the surveys here: www.health-study.com/about-the-project/project-design. Select a population for your results, using respondent filters for county, age, location, and more. Review the results in the dashboard and download data or images as needed.

Survey results have been divided into topics listed in the  left hand panel of the Dashboard. Topics have been divided by general sections of the survey, including aspect of social, health, economic, community, and workplace-based components of well-being. These sections are then divided into more specific aspects related to quality of life. Clicking on your selected topic will bring you to a page including tables presenting data from related questions.

To reflect the overall population of Hawaiʻi, survey results have been weighted by factors such as age, sex, education, and income. This means that the responses have been adjusted to match the demographics of the state, based on the 2022 Census data. Data were weighted to be representative of the state population - this helps make the survey more accurate and reflects the experiences of different groups in the state. By giving more weight to smaller or underrepresented groups and less to larger ones, the results offer a fairer and more balanced view of life in Hawaiʻi.

Each page includes a row of filters above the data tables that can be used to control the groups of respondents reflected in the results. You can filter the results by county of residence, age, gender identity, race/ethnicity, annual income, education and sample. If your selection of filters includes less than 20 respondents, no data will be shown.

Once you’ve found data you’re interested in, download results in various formats using the Export button. Download all tables at once, or one at a time by selecting “Export Current Selection.”

The dashboard includes the following gender categories: Female (including transwoman), Male (including transman), and Gender identity not listed. Small numbers of respondents self-identified as a transgender man/trans man, transgender woman/trans woman, genderqueer/gender nonconforming  or additional gender category.  Limited sample sizes in these categories can increase the risk of finding that there are no statistically significant differences between groups in the sample data, even when real inequality exists in the population. Thus, these individuals were included in larger gender categories; this is in line with Best Practice Guidelines. Future surveys will aim to recruit gender-diverse respondents so gender-minority groups can be better reflected in results and dashboards.

We welcome you to send us questions or feedback via our website, at www.health-study.com/contact-us. You can also contact us via email at hpi@hawaii.edu or by calling 808-956-6806.