OECD. Methodology in their Indicators

''The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today introduced a new Internet index to measure quality of life of people and compared by country, from the personal management of the priorities of each individual.
"The index for a better life" is based on eleven parameters that reflect the OECD believes that the "welfare", but everyone wants it to decide which should have a greater or lesser relative weight to calculate a country note how it looks in relation to others. These parameters are the income, housing, employment, social relations, education, environment, health, satisfaction, security and reconciliation between work and private life.''

We see that finally there is a latent concern of this body to improve the measurement indices so challenged by social movements, who disagree on conventional measures such as GDP, car buying 0 km, the unemployment rate among others. It aims to have a more accurate and descriptive as to give a true measurement of reality. Today is the paradox of having rates countries according to indicarores would enjoy good health'',''wings having such economic growth rates, but nevertheless finds that the population has serious problems to meet their needs basic.

''The extent of some of them are made with official statistics (such as employment, from unemployment and activity) and from other standardized surveys. Each of these factors can be given a specific weight on a scale of 0 to 5, and depending on the global rate allocation of a country, ranging from 0 to 10 - may vary, and their relative position if is compared with others.
For now, the indicator covers the 34 OECD countries, but is planned to extend it to the big emerging are Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. The OECD proposes to anyone interested in the web that you created to develop its own index to get an idea of ​​which parameters take precedence when citizens evaluate their concept of welfare.
"There is no ideal weight," recalled the organizers, who noted that the value that each citizen gives to different aspects depends largely on cultural factors.
"These are quality indicators" and not quantity, highlighted the promoters of the initiative at a press conference in which they pointed out that the objective is to measure, for example, health spending in a given country, but its impact on the population.''

An advantage and a disadvantage of this approach can be, while on one side get more realistic and descriptive data, on the other side is a methodology more expensive and takes longer, however it is good that the OECD is interested in change the classical method, where surely get results.
The results can be shared on Facebook, Twitter and email, and be submitted to the OECD to compose a "valuable" database on the preferences of its citizens. For now, you can not make comparisons over time because the data correspond to line positions in 2009, but eventually the goal is to analyze how welfare evolved.

Source: prensaescrita.com
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