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What are National Accounts of Well-being and why do we need them?
nef has set out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to the conventional narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly and regularly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going, as a new way of assessing societal progress.
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Investigate National Accounts of Well-being for Europe
The results from the most comprehensive international survey of well-being to date have been used to construct the first ever set of national well-being indicators. Interactively explore the data to create, compare and discuss results for specific countries and examine the well-being of population groups within them.
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Measure your own well-being and take action
Complete the survey to assess your own levels of well-being and create a personal Well-being Profile. Sign up to show your support for nef's proposal that National Accounts of Well-being should become government policy. Take action to make it happen: ask your MP or representative to join the call for official statistics on well-being.
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Recent news
World Forum to discuss 'new paradigms to measure progress'The OECD has announced its 3rd OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy which will ask the key questions 'Is life getting better?' 'Are our societies really making progress?' and 'What are the new paradigms to measure progress?'.
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Parliamentary 'Wellbeing Economics' group sets out challenge to GDPThis week saw the inaugural meeting of the first ever UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics.
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Back in the BBC spotlightThe BBC home affairs editor Mark Easton has made the 'fascinating National Accounts of Well-being site' the topic of his blog for a second time.
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National Accounts of Well-being in the newsSince the launch of the report and the website last Saturday, nef's proposal for National Accounts of Well-being has been receiving plenty of attention from the media.
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