Appendix: Sources of methods and measures of wellbeing and progress

In this appendix we provide links to:

  • Cross-national measures of wellbeing and progress, such as the UN Human Development Index, OECD's Better Life Index and Gallup's World Poll;
  • Cross-national developments and methodologies, including the Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi Commission recommendations and work coordinated by Eurostat across the European Union;
  • National, regional and local measures of wellbeing and progress, either under development or in regular production.

We are sure we will not have identified every initiative! We have drawn particularly on a list of 75 ‘indicator projects’ around the world compiled by Australian Statistician, Brian Pink, and presented at the OECD World Forum in India in 2012. The Australian Bureau of Statistics also kindly provided a list of a further 55 indicator projects within Australia, at national, state, city and community levels. This leads us to suggest that readers search out initiatives by their own national statistical office, universities and colleges, national, regional and local government and non-governmental and civil society organisations. Do please tell us about initiatives we have not included here (email to [email protected]) or if links need updating – we accessed them all during 2013, mainly between September and December.

Cross-national measures

Many sets of common indicators for European countries are published by the European Commission, for example:

Cross-national developments and methodologies

European Commission developments and methodologies include:

Among journals publishing papers about measuring wellbeing and progress are:

We are aware of a number of online communities with an interest in measuring national wellbeing and progress, including:

National, regional and local measures of wellbeing and progress

Links to the websites of all national statistical offices are held on the UN Statistics Division website at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.asp. We list here some initiatives particularly about social progress, wellbeing and sustainable development, both in national statistical offices and elsewhere.

Ireland

France

Netherlands

Belgium

Spain

Nordic Countries

Germany

Switzerland

Italy

Hungary

United Kingdom

Israel

Turkey

Palestine

Africa

India

China

Bhutan

Vietnam

Thailand

South Korea

Philippines

New Zealand

Australia

South Africa

Brazil

Mexico

Latin America

Canada (National)

Canada (Regional)

USA (National)

USA (Regional)

Mauritius

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