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How’s Life? 2015 Measuring Well-Being
About How’s Life? 2015 describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries. It includes a wide variety of statistics, capturing both material well-being (such as income, jobs and housing) and the broader quality of people’s lives (such as their health, education, work-life balance, environment, social connections, civic engagement, subjective well-being and […]
How’s Life? 2017 Measuring Well-Being
About How’s Life? 2017 charts the promises and pitfalls for people’s well-being in 35 OECD countries and 6 partner countries. It presents the latest evidence from 50 indicators, covering both current well-being outcomes and resources for future well-being, and including changes since 2005. During this period there have been signs of progress, but gains in […]
SDG #3: Good Health and Well being
#3 Good Health: Tackles reducing the global mortality ratio and promotes well-being in all age groups. It calls for action in ending preventable deaths by increasing access to communicable disease vaccines and medicines (i.e. HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB etc.) and challenges health care sectors to eradicate non-communicable disease (cancers, diabetes, hypertension etc.) by a third, […]
Is the West Really the Best? Modernisation and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Human Progress and Development.
Eckersley, R. M. (2016). Is the West Really the Best? Modernisation and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Human Progress and Development. Oxford Development Studies. Email: richard@richardeckersley.com.au ABSTRACT Scientific and political interest in measures of human progress and development is increasing, but the indicators are far from capturing all we need to know. They place Western liberal […]
What predicts our level of well-being?
What predicts our level of well-being? Author: Sally McManus, NatCen Social Research, in collaboration with Jenny Chenfrau, Cheryl Lloyd, Christos Byron, Caireen Roberts and Rachel Craig of NatCen Social Research; and Danielle De Feo, Department of Health Research case study – http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/data-in-use/case-study/?id=146
Wellbeing and Policy
About As part of a year-long commission, the ‘Wellbeing and Policy’ report seeks to illustrate the strengths and limitations of wellbeing analysis and provides original and authoritative guidance on the implications for public policy. It is widely agreed that GDP is an important yet insufficient measure of national success. In an attempt to broaden the […]
Big Lottery Fund National Well-Being Evaluation UK
Video About Can well-being be improved? The Big Lottery Fund (one of the UK’s largest funders of community activities) released the final report based on the evaluation of their £160 million Well-Being Programme. The Programme, which funded a wide range of community projects over several years, through leading charities such as MIND, Age UK, School […]
World Happiness Index
World Happiness Index Background Created by Pierre le Roy, founder of GLOBECO, the world happiness index is calculated to measure world happiness per country since the year 2000. It focuses on collective, country-level happiness and aims to capture evolution and not the statistical situation of the country. [1] Methodology The World Happiness Index is an […]
Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress
About This article published in the review Ecological Economics addresses the need to go beyond GDP and to use indicators that will better assess the social, economical and political progress of nations. Global Gross Domestic Product has increased more than three-fold since 1950 but The Genuine Progress Index shows that economic welfare has decreased since […]