Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social progress and developing policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these concepts is the capability approach, a theoretical framework which was pioneered by the philosopher and economist...

1. Measuring the Wellbeing of Groups -- 2. Statistical Matters -- 3. Complete Orderings: Index Types and the Ambiguity Problem -- 4. Partial Orderings -- 5. Comparing Latent Subgroups -- 6. Ambiguity Comparability Segmentation and All That -- 7. Some Applications