Index Of Love -2015- Info
The Index of Love 2015: Understanding the State of Romance in the Modern World
Index of Love / 2015
3. Data sources and 2015-relevant datasets
Conclusion
- Global charitable giving stable; philanthropic giving high in US in absolute terms per capita (Giving USA 2015).
- Crowdfunding for personal needs increased sharply, reflecting shifts in private-to-public charity and emergent peer-to-peer compassion mechanisms.
Temporal focus: metrics measured or reported in 2015; where unavailable, nearest-year proxies (2014–2016) used with notation.
Robustness: correlation analysis between subindices; principal component analysis to test dimensionality; bootstrapped confidence intervals for index estimates.
Limitations: cross-cultural meaning differences, survey nonresponse, platform data opaque or proprietary, inability to measure private emotional states directly.