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How do you define a better life? What matters most to you – good schools, safe streets or something else? The OECD Better Life Initiative proposes an interactive tool, Your Better Life Index, which enables you to rate your country on the things you feel make for a better life. The Index allows citizens to compare well-being across 34 countries, based on 11 dimensions the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, work-life balance. The OECD is NOT deciding what makes for better lives. YOU decide for yourself. The Index will be live on 24 May 2011.
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Your Better Life Index
Marking the OECD’s 50th Anniversary by engaging the public in the policy process
Your Better Life Index
For fifty years the OECD has been driving better policies for better lives. For its 50th Anniversary, the OECD is launching Your Better Life Index, manifesting its work to measure progress. By asking the question “How’s life?” across 11 fundamental determinants of well-being, the OECD incorporates the quality of citizens’ lives into a common understanding of progress.
Each user can create their own index, comparing well-being in their country to that of others, and their country’s overall performance with their personal priorities.
By using this instrument, they also discover how each of the 11 factors affects quality of life overall, and learn about the best policy practices in these areas.
Better policies for better lives
The OECD helps governments meet the concerns of their citizens
Government
(POLICIES)
Citizens
(LIVES)(BETTER)
Supply Demand
Better policies for better lives
Your Better Life Index helps governments engage the public in policy making
Government
(POLICIES)
Citizens
(LIVES)(BETTER)
INFORMATION
EngagementSupply
Your Better Life Index
A instrument to measure quality of life
Sets of indicators grouped by topic for OECD countries
allow users to compare how countries perform overall and in specific areas
Your Better Life Index
A space for you to experiment and learn
A “control panel” allows you to attribute weights to each set of indicators and discover how the focus on their priorities affects the performance of their country as a whole
Your Better Life Index
A portal to OECD work
Links to OECD data, analysis and policy recommendations by both country and topic allow users to explore the information in the depth appropriate to their level of expertise
Your Better Life Index
1. Awareness
2. Knowledge
3. Empowerment
4. Engagement
The user’s journey
The benefits to citizens
• Connects government policies to citizens’ lives
• Expresses the primary concerns of citizens and generates support for needed policy measures
• Allows citizens to compare how countries are performing based on their priorities
• Empowers citizens by improving their understanding about and civil participation in policy-making
• Makes OECD information more accessible, interactive and interesting to stakeholders
Your Better Life Index
www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org
