Beyond GDP/Wellbeing

Correspondence between Better Statistics CIC and Richard Heys, Deputy Chief Economist at the ONS

Correspondence referring to the ESCoE paper: GDP and Welfare: Empirical Estimates of a Spectrum of Opportunity From: Heys, Richard Sent: 16 September 2021 17:49 To: Tony Dent Tony, Thank you [...]

Is the UK Prosperity Index a Better Statistic?

Tony Dent and Phyllis Macfarlane provide a critique of the UK Prosperity index as published by the Legatum institute in May of this year.   Summary:   The UK prosperity […]

Posting on Stats User Network following from Paul Allin’s recent email to Richard Heys

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Mental Well-being

The recent blog “Are we facing a mental health pandemic?” by Tim Vizard and Theo Joloza which can be found here, is very important in emphasising the value of the […]

Well-being – Comparing Economic Variables with Survey Data

Prepared by Aiysha Mirza, CMR Group   Introduction As part of a project to compare measures of personal well-being and economic data, we are looking to test the validity/relevance of […]

POPULATION STUDY – Test Project 

Following CMR’s sponsorship of the successful meeting on the Gig economy, held at the National Liberal Club on the evening of the 28th October, we have now published a short […]