Post on 23-Feb-2016
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National Statistician
www.ons.gov.uk/well-being
Jil Matheson
Measures of Progress: UK Perspective
• Measuring National Well-being.
• Sustainable Development Indicators.
• Plethora of national and international examples of measuring progress to learn from.
• Align approaches in a consistent conceptual framework.
• Can we join up?
Measures of National Well-being (1)
Measures of National Well-being (2)
Proposed Sustainable Development Headline Indicators
Economy Society Environment
Economic prosperity Healthy life expectancy Greenhouse gas emissions
Long term unemployment
Social Capital Natural resource use
Poverty Social mobility in adulthood
Wildlife and biodiversity
Knowledge and skills Housing provision Water availability
Measures of Progress: Further Developments
Environmental Accounts•Interaction between the economy and environment.
• EU regulations.
Experimental Ecosystems Accounts• Published a roadmap of development to 2020.• Development of Ecosystem accounts such as soil,
fisheries, forests, etc (ONS & DEFRA).• Challenging experimental area.• Challenges in attempting to value natural capital.
Lessons Learnt from UK Experience• Consultation and Engagement.
• Multi-dimensional concept - dashboard of indicators rather than single index.
• 3 Pillars - Economy, Social and Environmental.
• Subjective and objective measures needed.
• Current/future well-being should be reflected (capital stocks and flows are important).
• Distributions as well as averages.
UK Response to Rio+20
• Align developments in measuring well-being, progress, SDGs and MDGs agendas
• Join up initiatives (UN/OECD/EU Commission/ILO/National Statistics Institutes).
• Draw on a consistent conceptual framework.