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Wellbeing needs Equality:

The Equality Trust & One Society

Submission to the

Office for National Statistics

        

It is an encouraging sign that the government has asked the Office for National Statistics to consult on the subject of wellbeing. It is part of a growing international recognition that crude and simplistic measures of economic growth, such as GDP or GNP, no longer give a very useful or true picture of human progress.

It chimes significantly with our findings that so many health and social indicators no longer seem positively correlated with increases in average living standards in developed countries. This suggests that we need to look at the state of social relations within our society in order to really understand the best ways to improve our lives - and in particular at the level of inequality which directly and profoundly influences the quality of those social relations.

We encourage everyone to read our submission and to share it as widely as possible through all their networks.

The more the links between inequality, the quality of social relations and general wellbeing are understood, the more compelling the arguments for reducing inequality in the UK will become.

To read "A submission from The Equality Trust and One Society to the Wellbeing Consultation of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), April 2011”,please click: -

Equality Trust & One Society to the Wellbeing Consultation of the ONS 

To view The Equality Trust website please go to: -

http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ 

The Office for National Statistics says: -

ONS is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is that these new measures will cover the quality of life of people in the UK, environmental and sustainability issues, as well as the economic performance of the country.

To develop better measures of the nation's well-being we want to ask what matters most in people's lives and what is important for measuring the nation's well-being.

There is a Wellbeing Virtual Debate, Comments Page, & News on the ONS website.

To go to the Office Of National Statistics website please click:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/well-being

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