Measuring Subjective Well-Being and its Potential Role in Policy: Perspectives from the UK Office for National Statistics

Stephen Hicks (), Lucy Tinkler () and Paul Allin ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 114, issue 1, 73-86

Abstract: Measures of subjective well-being are one component of the measurement of the quality of life and progress of a nation. The Office for National Statistics approach, as part of the Measuring National Well-being programme, has been to include such measures alongside more objective measures in order to gain a full picture of “how things are going” and to better inform public policy. These estimates are considered experimental and further testing and development is underway. However, it is argued that subjective well-being measures have a potential role in the policy process and this article considers how they could be used in policy making within the UK. Copyright UK Crown 2013

Keywords: Subjective well-being; The office for national statistics; Measuring national well-being; Quality of life; Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi; Gross domestic product (GDP) and beyond; GDP; Objective-list; Preference satisfaction; Evaluative; Experience; Eudemonic; Annual population survey (APS); Dolan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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