The Office for National Statistics and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) held a joint event on 12 March 2012 entitled 'breaking new ground: addressing key challenges in the measurement of national well-being'. This event included the annual meeting of the National Statistician's Advisory Forum meeting.
Summary
Note of the ONS/ESRC well-being seminar (134.7 Kb Pdf)
Presentations
Sustaining well-being now and in the future (755.8 Kb Pdf) by Gemma Harper (DEFRA)
Sustainable development and well-being (400.5 Kb Pdf) by Maillika Ishwaran (DEFRA)
Towards a conceptual framework encompassing and addressing subjective and national well-being (2.14 Mb Pdf) by Sabine Alkire (University of Oxford)
How should we capture and respond to the distributional dimension of well-being across the UK (613.9 Kb Pdf) by Richard Wilkinson (Equality Trust)
Translating well-being measures into policy and practice (324.1 Kb Pdf) by Karl Wilding (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Economic and Social Research Council plans to contribute to the well-being agenda (183.5 Kb Pdf) by Adrian Alsop (ESRC)
Reference Material
Capability approach in measuring individual and national well-being (1.27 Mb Pdf)
The measurement of progress (Editorial) (638.6 Kb Pdf)
Development of capability indicators for the UK (423.9 Kb Pdf)
