Supplementing GDP: Some Recent Contributions from Official Social Statistics

Jérôme Accardo

Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2020, issue 517-518-519, 25-39

Abstract: [eng] In its efforts to take the criticisms levelled against GDP into consideration, national accounting benefits from the contribution made by social statistics. In the last decade, it has developed major innovations, such as accounts by household category, and it has provided other useful empirical and methodological tools to address the problem of evaluating domestic production and of taking into account non-monetary dimensions. It has also been very active in the new field of “the economics of happiness” (with the measurement of subjective well-being). This paper offers a critical discussion of the work carried out in these areas by official statistics.

JEL-codes: E01 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://insee.fr/en/statistiques/fichier/4770148/0 ... 19_Accardo_ENWeb.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nse:ecosta:ecostat_2020_517t_3

DOI: 10.24187/ecostat.2020.517t.2016

Access Statistics for this article

Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Dominique Goux

More articles in Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics from Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Veronique Egloff ().