How's life? 2013 measuring well-being

Every person aspires to a good life. But what does ""a good or a better life"" mean? The second edition of How's Life? provides an update on the most important aspects that shape people's lives and well-being: income, jobs, housing, health, work-life balance, education...

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Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing [2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Table of contents; Editorial: Focusing on people; Measuring Better Lives is more important now than ever; The global financial crisis has seriously affected economic well-being; Trust in institutions has weakened; New forms of solidarity and engagement have emerged; Well-being indicators offer new insights for policy making; Can women and men have it all?; Well-being in the workplace: The importance of quality jobs; Sustaining well-being over time; Reader's guide; Conventions; For all figures, ISO codes for countries are used; Executive summary; How's Life? overall
  • Well-being and the global financial crisisTackling gender inequality; Quality jobs for greater well-being; Future well-being; Chapter 1. The OECD Better Life Initiative: Concepts and indicators; The OECD Better Life Initiative and beyond; Box 1.1. The Better Life Index; Figure 1.1. The OECD Better Life Index web application; Box 1.2. Recent national initiatives on measuring well-being and progress; A framework for measuring well-being; Figure 1.2. The OECD well-being conceptual framework; Box 1.3. Conceptual underpinnings of the OECD well-being framework; Selecting indicators
  • Assessing well-being through a dashboard of indicatorsBox 1.4. The How's Life? headline indicators in 2011 and in this edition; The How's Life? statistical agenda: Progress since 2011; Table 1.1. An overview of headline well-being indicators; Conclusions; Notes; References; Annex 1.A1. Assessing countries' relative strengths and weaknesses in overall well-being performance; Figure 1.A1.1. Strengths and weaknesses in well-being vary across countries; Figure 1.A1.2. Dimensions that count most for overall well-being performance
  • Figure 1.A1.3. Correlation between well-being performance and performance dispersion across indicatorsFigure 1.A1.4. Correlation between7 well-being performance and socio-economic differences in well-being; Chapter 2. How's Life? at a Glance; Income and wealth; Box 2.1. Measuring Income and wealth; Figure 2.1. Household net adjusted disposable income per capita; Figure 2.2. Household net financial wealth per capita; Figure 2.3. Income inequalities; Jobs and earnings; Box 2.2. Measuring Jobs and earnings; Figure 2.4. Employment rate; Figure 2.5. Long-term unemployment rate
  • Figure 2.6. Average gross annual earnings of full-time employees in the total economyFigure 2.7. Employment rate by educational attainment; Housing conditions; Figure 2.8. Number of rooms per person; Box 2.3. Measuring Housing conditions; Figure 2.9. People living in dwellings without basic facilities; Figure 2.10. Housing expenditure; Health status; Box 2.4. Measuring Health status; Figure 2.11. Life expectancy at birth; Figure 2.12. Self-reported health status; Figure 2.13. Self-reported health status by disposable income; Work-life balance; Box 2.5. Measuring Work-life balance
  • Figure 2.14. Employees working long hours