Book Chapter

Measuring well-being: what you ask is what you get – or is it?

By Stephen Pudney and Annette Jäckle

Edited by Stephanie L. McFall

Publication details

Publication date
Series or book
Understanding Society: findings 2012
Pages
pp. 31–32
Publisher
University of Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research
ISBN
978 1 85871 163 8
View on understandingsociety.ac.uk

Abstract

In policy circles, well-being is in the air. In November 2010, the British Prime Minister announced plans for the Office for National Statistics to develop official measures of wellbeing, observing that ‘prosperity alone can't deliver a better life’. Other national governments and international organisations are making similar extensions to the range of welfare indicators they produce and monitor.