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New statistics for old? -measuring the wellbeing of the UK
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Title: | New statistics for old? -measuring the wellbeing of the UK |
Authors: | Allin, P Hand, DJ |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Attempts to create measures of national wellbeing and progress have a long history. In the UK, they go back at least as far as the 1790s, with Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland. More recently, worldwide interest has led to the creation of a number of indices seeking to go beyond familiar economic measures like GDP. We review the Measuring National Well-being development programme of the UK’s Office for National Statistics, and explore some of the challenges which need to be faced to bring wider measures into use. These include: the importance of getting the measures adopted as policy drivers; how to challenge the continuing dominance of economic measures; sustainability and environmental issues; international comparability; and methodological statistical questions. |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2017 |
Date of Acceptance: | 17-Dec-2015 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28812 |
DOI: | 10.1111/rssa.12188 |
ISSN: | 0964-1998 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Start Page: | 3 |
End Page: | 43 |
Journal / Book Title: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A - Statistics in Society |
Volume: | 180 |
Issue: | 1 |
Copyright Statement: | © 2016 Royal Statistical Society. |
Keywords: | wellbeing progress beyond GDP quantum of happiness public policy sustainable development Social Sciences Science & Technology Physical Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Statistics & Probability Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Mathematics Beyond gross domestic product Progress Public policy Quantum of happiness Sustainable development Wellbeing QUALITY-OF-LIFE 0104 Statistics 1403 Econometrics 1603 Demography Statistics & Probability |
Publication Status: | Published |
Online Publication Date: | 2016-11-03 |
Appears in Collections: | Mathematics Statistics Faculty of Natural Sciences |