OECD better life index

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The Better Life Index is an initiative created by the OECD to compare the well-being priorities of people around the world.

It consists of 11 social indicators: “housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, work-life balance” that contribute to well-being in OECD countries.

This initiative aims to involve citizens in the debate on measuring the well-being of societies, and to empower them to become more informed and engaged in the policy-making process that shapes all our lives.

The 11 indicators in turn are composed of 20 sub-indicators through averaging and normalization.

The visualization tool is available here. By selecting a set of weights to the sub-indicators, a user can rank countries according to their weighted sum.

Dataset Identifier

oecd-better-life-index

Downloads

129

Themes

Climate

Keywords

Index, Housing, Income, Jobs, Commodity, Education, Environment, Governance, life satisfaction, Safety, Work-life balance, Health, Sustainability

Language

English

Modified

9 December 2024 09:25

Publisher

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-OECD

Reference

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=BLI&_ga=2.89166493.743604415.1621319502-1488789265.1621319502

Last checked date

9 December 2024

Country

World

ISO region

WORLD

Source copyrights

http://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/

Data classification

Public

Discontinued Data

No

Publisher Periodicity

Annually

Expected next release

6 November 2025

Territory

World ,

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Last processing

9 December 2024 09:25 (metadata)

7 November 2024 10:34 (data)

DCAT

Accrual periodicity

Annually

Temporal

2022

Temporal coverage start date

31 December 2021 21:00

Temporal coverage end date

30 December 2022 21:00

Semantic Metadata

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No description available for this field.

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Indicator

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Sub-Indicator

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Inequality

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Observation Value

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OBS_STATUS

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Observation Status

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UNIT_MEASURE

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Unit of Measures

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UNIT_MULT

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Multiplier

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BASE_PER

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Base reference period

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Name (identifier)	base_reference_period
Type	text
Sample

JSON Schema

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