Measuring subjective well-being across OECD countries
Thanks to the large investment of official data producers in OECD countries, measures
of subjective well-being have become increasingly robust and meaningful from a policy
perspective. In the ten years since the OECD published its Guidelines on Measuring
Subjective Well-being, the inclusion of subjective well-being indicators in national
measurement frameworks and household surveys has grown. Country practice has converged
around a standard measure of life satisfaction, however affective and eudaimonic measures
of subjective well-being remain less harmonised. This policy insights, along with
its accompanying working paper, identify priority areas for future OECD work by marrying
the practical concerns of data collectors with good practice as identified by the
academic literature.
Available from March 01, 2024
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