considers the public's understanding of the relationship between economic and social well-being, and the linkages between the … social role. The analysis in the chapter is based on data from quantitative survey and evidence from qualitative focus group …

first place in the United Nations' Human Development Index, other indices have produced much less brilliant results. Modern …, "social progress" in a liberal society must be measured in the "enabling" sense that a society progresses when it enables more … constructing a measure of the attainment of social and economic rights are discussed and several quantitative indices of social …

indexes of economic and social well-being. This reflects growing recognition of the important role macro-indicators can play … on well-being. This report provides a literature review of conceptual/operational frameworks for the development of macro-indicators … that give an assessment of economic, labour market and social conditions or states of well-being. The report provides an …

, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental … subjective indicators or measures. The report is divided into five major parts. The first part provides a brief overview of …. The fourth section discusses briefly the role of indicators in public policy initiatives to improve the well-being of …

productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms … running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on …

future personal and country well-being. These measures allow the analysis of two dimensions of happiness data not previously … their personal well-being as being better than their country’s and tend to expect that their future well-being will improve …. The authors also analyze the impact of inflation and unemployment on these subjective measures and find that both …

. Therefore, using the International Social Survey Programme 1998 data from 26 countries this paper investigates the impact of … relative income on 14 measurements of social capital. We find support for a considerable deleterious positional concern effect …

. Therefore, using the International Social Survey Programme 1998 data from 26 countries this paper investigates the impact of … relative income on 14 measurements of social capital. We find support for a considerable deleterious positional concern effect …