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Better Life Initiative: Measuring Well-Being and Progress

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Are our lives getting better? How can policies improve our lives? Are we measuring the right things? The OECD Better Life Initiative and the work programme on Measuring Well-Being and Progress answer these questions. They allow understanding what drives well-being of people and nations and what needs to be done to achieve greater progress for all.

Measuring Well-Being and Progress

For almost 10 years, focusing on people's well-being and societal progress, the OECD has been looking not only at the functioning of the economic system but also at the diverse experiences and living conditions of people and households. Measuring well-being and progress remains a key priority for the OECD through research, regional conferences and the OECD World Fora on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy".

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 Your Better Life Index

Your Better Life Index allows you to visualise well-being outcomes in OECD countries; it is an interactive tool through which you can look at how countries perform according to the importance you give to the various components of well-being.

An updated version, launched on 22 May 2012, integrates data on gender and inequality and strengthens existing topics. Visitors to Your Better Life Index will now be able to compare their well-being priorities to those of other users by country, age and gender, and share their results. The updated Index also includes two new countries, Russia and Brazil. The Index is available in French and is embeddable for websites and blogs.

 "How's life?"

Released on 12 October 2011, this new publication gathers and analyses indicators on the well-being of individuals and households. The report is structured along the dimensions identified by the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, and focuses on both average conditions of households and specific population groups in OECD and selected non-OECD countries.

 

 

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