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National Accounts of Well-being
The New Economics Foundation (nef), within its initiative to support the development of a system of national accounts of well-being, has out the details of its case for governments to systematically measure and report on the well-being of their populations.
Using the latest findings from the field of well-being research, the report National Accounts of Well-being: bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet demonstrates how the case for national well-being measures is closely linked to the history of economic national accounting.
The report describes how a framework for National Accounts of Well-being was developed from European Social Survey data and presents the resulting findings, to show how National Accounts of Well-being can provide a new, more meaningful measure of national success and help governments take decisions to improve the lives of their citizens.
The report is available for download in PDF, along with a related set of country scores in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format.