article_snippet: a new study was conducted by Franz Buscha, principal research fellow at the University of Westminster, who monitored weather records with people's happiness.
article_snippet: Mr Buscha merged daily weather data from the UK Met Office with individual level wellbeing data culled from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2008 and found no evidence that the often assumed relationship between sunshine and happiness existed.
article_snippet: The research, which will be presented by the Royal Economics Society next week, searched for correlations between happiness and temperature, sunshine, rainfall and wind speed.
article_snippet: The study was conducted by Franz Buscha, above, principal research fellow at the University of Westminster .
article_snippet: People's well-being is driven by life events such as income, employment, health, family, death of a loved one, winning in the lottery, etc. '
article_snippet: Mr Buscha's findings may be seen as unimportant but levels of well-being are becoming a focus for the Office for National Statistics.
highlights_snippet: Study was carried out by a research fellow at the University of Westminster .
  
highlights_snippet: Met Office data merged with well-being levels taken in household survey .
  