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CNSTAT - TOPICS
Coordinating and Sustaining Federal Statistics Decennial Census and American Community Survey Economic Measurement Federal Household and Business Surveys Health and Social Welfare Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency Statistical Methods and Estimates for Policy Use
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Phase 1 Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy Relevant Framework
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Project Scope
An ad hoc panel will review the current state of research and evaluate methods for the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) in population surveys. On the basis of this evaluation, the panel will offer guidance about adopting SWB measures in official government surveys to inform social and economic policies. The study will be carried out in two phases. The first phase, which is the subject of this statement of task, is to consider whether research has advanced to a point that warrants the federal government collecting data that allow aspects of the population's SWB to be tracked and associated with changing conditions. The study will focus on experienced wellbeing (e.g., reports of momentary positive and rewarding, or negative and distressing, states) and time-based approaches (some of the most promising of which are oriented toward monitoring misery and pain as opposed to "happiness"), though their connection with life-evaluative measures will also be considered. Although primarily focused on SWB measures for inclusion in U.S. government surveys, the panel will also consider inclusion of SWB measures in surveys in the United Kingdom and European Union, in order to facilitate cross-national comparisons in addition to comparisons over time and for population groups within the United States. The panel will prepare a short interim report on the usefulness of the American Time Use Survey subjective well-being module, and a final report identifying potential indicators and offering recommendations for their measurement. A later, separate second phase will seek to develop a framework modeled on the National Income and Product Accounts to integrate time-based inputs and outputs, and SWB measures, into selected satellite, or experimental, subaccounts.
The project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Aging, and the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council.
The approximate start date for the project is 11/15/2011.
The project scope was revised on August 19, 2012.
Members |
| Dr. Arthur A. Stone (Chair) - Stony Brook University |
| Dr. Norman M. Bradburn - The University of Chicago |
| Dr. Laura L. Carstensen - Stanford University |
| Dr. Edward F. Diener - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Dr. Paul H. Dolan - London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Dr. Carol L. Graham - The Brookings Institution |
| Dr. V. Joseph Hotz - Duke University |
| Dr. Daniel Kahneman - Princeton University |
| Dr. Arie Kapteyn - The RAND Corporation |
| Dr. Amanda Sacker - University of Essex |
| Dr. Norbert Schwarz - University of Michigan |
| Dr. Justin Wolfers - University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania |
| For more information, see the complete record at the National Academies' Current Project site |
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