Titlebook: Understanding Well-being Data; Improving Social and Susan Oman Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 cultu

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Understanding,mprove knowledge of good and bad well-being and reveal how to apply this information to improve societies. Understanding means more than knowledge, including a . understanding of how to do something (like a method). Crucially, it also means empathy. This chapter presents academic and everyday perspe

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Looking at Well-being Data in Context,through surveys, and administrative records. We focus on objective well-being data and a case study of the OECD reveals the volume of decision-making behind international objective indicators. Such human intervention is rarely visible, but is important and useful to improve understanding and comprehension of well-being data more generally.

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,Discovering ‘the New Science of Happiness’ and Subjective Well-being,eing data. It presents definitions, theories and methods to help understand what went on behind the scenes and under the bonnet of these data practices. We look at the establishment of the UK’s subjective well-being measures and address the question of what subjective well-being can do that differs from previous well-being measures.

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