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The process of establishing Eurostat's
Quality of life framework
Georgiana Ivan
Eurostat, European Commission
Eurostat
Eurostat
European context of measuring Quality of Life Indicators
Consistency with theory
SSF
Report
Europe 2020
Political relevance
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Quality of life framework
The Triangle for
Quality of
Indicators (QoL)
GDP & Beyond
Measurability
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Eurostat
Report by the Commission on the
Measurement of Economic
Performance and Social Progress (2009)
- Coordinated by J. Stiglitz, A. Sen and J.P. Fitoussi
- Stressing the need of using other measures to
complement GDP when measuring the progress of
societies
- Grouped into three areas: emphasizing the (1)
household perspective, (2) environmental and (3)
quality of life indicators
- Better distributional measures for complementing
central tendencies
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GDP and beyond:
additional actions and indicators
Commission roadmap for actions in the short/medium
term
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GDP and beyond
EC Communication
Aug 2009
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Priorities set out in the European Roadmap 2009
1. Complementing GDP with environmental and social
indicators:
• A comprehensive environmental index;
• Quality of life and well-being indicators.
2. Near real time information for decision-making:
• More timely environmental indicators;
• More timely social indicators. (precise actions for
EU-SILC)
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The ESS response
Stiglitz
Report
• Sponsorship Group (SpG) launched by the European Statistical System
(ESS) - February 2010
Europe
2020
• SpG report adopted by ESS - November 2011
• Expert Group on Quality of life indicators- first meeting June 2012
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Expert Group on Quality of life indicators
- Participants: 10 MS (voluntary basis), OECD, Eurofound,
scientific experts
- 7 meetings so far
- Made proposals for
• dimensions, topics, indicators, variables
• data sources to be used, way of dissemination
• public consultations took place in some of the MS
- The Directors of social statistics agreed in 2013 on
a first set of QoL indicators on Eurostat's website
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gdp-and-beyond/quality-oflife/data/overview
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Expert Group on Quality of life indicators
Guiding principles
• Relevance of the indicator in relation to quality of life
• Data coverage
• Data availability
• Data availability at a non-aggregated level
• Possibility of showing information on the whole
distribution
• Reducing the complexity (by building synthetic indicators)
• Overall consistency of the set
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EU Quality of life framework
Overall experience
of life
Material living
conditions
Environment
Governance
Jobs
Safety
Health
Social relations&
leisure
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EU Quality of life data
- EU Statistics on Income & Living Conditions (EU-SILC) are the
core instrument
- It is a micro data set covering most dimensions
- Complement the coverage of the dimensions with additional
data sources (EHIS, LFS, TUS…)
- Objective + subjective data (collected for the first time in 2013)
- Distributional measures (geographical, vulnerable groups)
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Main outputs of Eurostat's QoL work
- Set of QoL indicators on Eurostat's website (dedicated section)
- Datasets on subjective well-being containing average values
(by country and for different groups) and distributional aspects
(% with high, medium and low well-being)
- "Quality of life. Facts and views" publication (One article per
QoL dimension)
- Same content in Statistics explained wiki pages available on
Eurostat's website& Interactive infographic tool
Main value added: joint analysis of objective and subjective data
for each dimension
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Interactive infographic
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Future steps
• Regular production by the ESS (Overall life satisfaction to be
included in the core of EU-SILC)
• Continuous quality improvements
• In-depth analysis of the collected data (e.g. :multi-causality)
• Micro data available for researchers; studies will follow
• Use by the policy makers
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What matters most for our quality of life?
Average life satisfaction by health status
Average life satisfaction by national income quintile
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7.9
8
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7
6.5
6
5
8
7.3
6.3
6.8
7.1
7.3
7.7
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5.4
5
4.3
4
4
3
3
2
2
1
1
0
0
Very bad
Bad
Fair
Good
Very good
20%
poorest
Second
quintile
Third
quintile
Fourth
quintile
20% richest
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What matters most for one's quality of life?
Average life satisfaction
by social support (ability to get help when needed)
Average life satisfaction by household type
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10
9
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8
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7.1
7
7
6
5.5
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3
2
2
1
1
0
0
No
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7.2
7.3
7.4
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Yes
6.5
7.0
1 adult, no 1 adult with 2 adults, no
dep children dep children dep children
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2 adults, 1
dep child
2 adults, 2 2 adults, 3+
dep children dep children
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What matters most for one's quality of life?
Average life satisfaction by bad working conditions
(employed population)
Average life satisfaction by employment status
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10
9
9
8
7.8
7.4
7
7.0
8
6.8
5.9
6
7.1
7
6.6
6.5
5.7
6.0
6
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3
3
2
2
1
1
0
In education Employed
Retired
Homemaker
Other
inactive
Unemployed
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Temporary
contract
In workpoor
Unvoluntary
part-time
Not
satisfied
with job
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Conclusions
- Eurostat's work in the area is the response of the European
statistical community to the societal (reflected in the
political) norm of "going beyond GDP"
- Relatively top-down approach, that included some elements
of bottom-up coming from the Member States participating
(national consultations)
- Major achievements regarding the inclusion of subjective
elements in official statistics, that can be analysed jointly
with the objective ones
- Joint analysis is essential, as individual answers are also
impacted by norms and beliefs
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
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