Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research

Intro -- Preface: A Personal Note on Why I Wrote the Book -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Understanding Well-being Data -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introducing Well-being Data -- 1.1 Introduction to Understanding Well-being Data -- Subjective and Objective Data -- 1.2 Who Is This Book for? -- 1.3 What Is This Book Trying to Do? -- 1.4 Why Well-being Data? -- 1.5 How Are Data Cultural? -- 1.6 How Should I Use This Book? -- 1.7 Why Is the Book Written in This Order? -- The First Half -- Half Time -- The Second Half -- References -- Chapter 2: Knowing Well-being: A History of Data -- 2.1 What Is Well-being? -- Traditions of Well-being Thought -- Hedonia: Most Simply Understood as Pleasure or Positive Feeling -- Eudaimonia: Most Often Understood as Purpose or Flourishing -- Common Definitions Used with Well-being Data -- Objective Well-being -- Subjective Well-being -- 2.2 Measuring Well-being to Improve Human Welfare: A Brief History -- 2.3 Audit Culture, Value and Public Management -- Social Policy -- So, What Is Value? -- Economics, Value and Human Behaviours -- What Is Social Value? -- 2.4 Conclusion: Well-being as a Tool of Policy -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking at Well-being Data in Context -- 3.1 Well-being Measurement (Other Data Are Available) -- 3.2 Accounts of Well-being -- Objective Lists -- Preference Satisfaction -- Mental States (or Subjective Well-being) -- 3.3 Everyday Well-being Data: Asking People Questions About Their Lives -- Questionnaire Data -- Interview Data -- Ethnographic Data -- Secondary Qualitative Data -- 3.4 Objective Well-being Data and Measures -- 3.5 The OECD as a Case Study of What Lies Behind Objective Well-being Data -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Discovering 'the New Science of Happiness' and Subjective Well-being.