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OECD Knowledge Exchange Platform on Well-being Metrics and Policy Practice (KEP): Virtual Workshop 1, 13 June 2024

Summarising the complexity of well-being data and evidence: Reporting and communicating on well-being dashboards

1. OECD experience with reporting and communicating on the
“How’s Life?” dashboard since 2011
WISE – the OECD Centre on Well- Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity
Lara Fleischer- Acting Head, Well-being Data Insights and Policy Practice
Workshop 1:
Summarising and communicating the complexity of well-
being dashboards
13 June 2024
CENTRE ON WELL -BEING, INCLUSION,
SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY (WISE)

2. OECD
Well-being
Framework
OECD (2020) How’s Life? 2020: Measuring Well-being, OECD Publishing, Paris https://doi.org/10.1787/23089679
www.oecd.org/howslife
CURRENTWELL-BEING
Work and Job Quality
Housing
Income andWealth
Health
Environmental Quality
Knowledge and Skills
SubjectiveWell-being
Safety
Work-life Balance
Social Connections
Civic Engagement
=
+
Averages
Inequalitiesbetween
topandbottom
performers
Inequalities
between
groups
Deprivations
RESOURCES FOR FUTURE WELL-BEING
Economic Capital
Human Capital
Social Capital
Stocks
Risk factors
Flows
Resilience
Key dimensions
Key dimensions
Howwe measure them
Howwe measure them
With over 80 indicators, we look
at:
•11 dimensions of well -being
outcomes “today” (material
conditions, quality of life &
relational aspects)
•well-being inequalities
•the resources & risk factors
that shape future well -being

3. Main challenges
•Communicating on more than 80 well-being outcomes for all OECD countries
•Catering to different internal and external target audiences
•Handling a dataset in which indicators often have very different time frames

4. Portfolio of products for different audiences
Online database
Updated on a rolling basis
(~quarterly)
Report released
every 2 years
Well-being country profiles
Updated annually
Country-specific
well-being reports
on demand
Better Life Index for broad outreach

5. Headline indicators
Selection criteria:
•Balance across the components (average outcomes and inequalities across all dimensions)
of the OECD Well-being Framework
•Use in other international and national well-being initiatives
•Policy relevance
•Strong performance on statistical quality (i.e. many headlines act as broad summary
indicators of their respective dimensions, cover the large majority of OECD countries, and
are more frequently collected and produced in a timelier manner than other indicators of
the extended dashboard
)
•Continuously reviewed in line with these criteria

6. Headline indicators
Material conditions Quality of life
Community
relationships
Natural & social capital
Economic & human capital

7. Key summary
data viz
Headline indicators
for current well- being

8. Resources for future well-being
Key summary
data viz
Inequalities
Trends over time

9. Benchmarking
Comparison group
•Usually the OECD average
Over time
•Magnitude of change
(indicator-specific thresholds)
•Consistency of change
(spearman correlation)
Target
•N/A
Housing cost overburden
Percentage of households in the bottom 40% of the income distribution
spending over 40% of their disposable income on housing costs

10. Focus on key stories
Fleischer, L.andL. Stokenberga (2023), "Well-being in Finland:Bringing together people, economy and
planet",OECD Papers on Well-being and Inequalities , No. 14, OECD Publishing,
Paris,https://doi.org/10.1787/ecf06a58- en

Areas where:
performance is stagnating or deteriorating
inequalities between population groups are large
improvements for some headline indicators
contrasts with declining or stagnating performance
in others
Upcoming How’s Life? report: user testing of key
messages with focus groups

11. Organise alternative data within the conceptual framework
CURRENTWELL-BEING
Work and Job Quality
Housing
Income andWealth
Health
Environmental Quality
Knowledge and Skills
SubjectiveWell-being
Safety
Work-life Balance
Social Connections
Civic Engagement
=
+
Averages
Inequalitiesbetween
topandbottom
performers
Inequalities
between
groups
Deprivations
RESOURCES FOR FUTURE WELL-BEING
Economic Capital
Human Capital
Social Capital
Stocks
Risk factors
Flows
Resilience
Key dimensions
Key dimensions
Howwe measure them
Howwe measure them

12. Upcoming developments
•Further investments in automatisation of data
infrastructure and analysis tools
•Single interactive online datahub to access
most up to date well-being indicators and
country profiles in a user-friendly way,
integration of streamlined Better Life Index

13. Key summary
data viz
Inequalities
OECD average