Towards a Comprehensive Measurement of Well-being.

Countries around the world have a strong need for better data on multidimensional well-being. The purpose of these series of invited lectures is to explore best practice in specific topics of the design, implementation and use of household surveys and other relevant statistical tools for measuring multidimensional well-being. The Specialised Technical Group on the Measurement of Income and Well-being (GTMIB) is a group of Mexican experts tasked with providing recommendations for a new national household survey to measure household income and its distribution, as well as other dimensions of people’s well-being in Mexico.

INEGI (the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography), the OECD and the IBERO (Universidad Iberoamericana) are joining forces to explore the current state of the art in the field. These series of invited lectures will be open to members of the GTMIB, and other statisticians, scholars and researchers in diverse fields. They also contribute to OECD-EC-ECLAC project on Metrics for Policies for Well-being, a regional initiative aiming to inform policy dialogue across Latin America on the measurement of well-being and sustainable development, and to propose steps for addressing statistical gaps (part of the EU Regional Facility on Development in Transition).

To inform the recommendations of the Mexican expert group, GTMIB, towards designing a new national household survey for measuring income and well-being.