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OECD Better Life Index 美好生活指数

OECD Better Life Index it is a set of indicator system to measure the happiness of a country or region. It was Bhutan, a South Asian country, that first made the concept of "happiness index" and quantified it as an index system.

The method of measuring the good life index

There are three main methods for measuring happiness index:

1. Subjective indicator system: Bhutan, the United Kingdom, the OECD, the World Values Institute, the New Economic Foundation, etc. all use this method, which mainly measures the life satisfaction (income, employment, etc.) of the interviewee through questionnaires and interviews. , Health, leisure, etc.), and subjective evaluations of society, ecological environment, government governance, etc. The advantage of this evaluation system is that it can more fully reflect the subjective well-being of the interviewee. However, because the interviewed individuals are disturbed by internal and external factors such as the state of the interview and the understanding of happiness, the reliability of the survey results is susceptible to Questioned by academia.
2. Objective indicator system: UN Millennium Development Goals, UNDP Human Development Index, Dutch Social Research Institute's living condition indicators, etc., mainly through objective statistical indicators and objective evaluation methods of calculation formulas to reflect the living conditions of residents, such as health , Education, environment, lifespan, quality of life, etc. However, statistical indicator data is difficult to reflect such as satisfaction with work, satisfaction with marriage, satisfaction with government governance, feelings of life safety and so on.
3. The combination of subjective and objective indicators: the French Economic Development and Social Measurement Commission ’s happiness and economic development measurement, China ’s livelihood index, etc., use a combination of subjective and objective evaluation methods, this method makes up for the deficiencies of the first two methods, but there is a subjective evaluation The problem of weight coordination with objective evaluation.

Calculate ranking by region

Bhutan

Bhutan was the first to use the happiness index to replace the gross national product (GDP) to measure the lives of local people. It was founded by the fourth-generation king of Bhutan, Jigme Singh Wangchuk, to stabilize the regime and maintain the region. A stable policy tool.