@inbook{300c495b205e4b658b978b5e1f19ebad,
title = "Methods of Measuring Human Well-being and Human Development",
abstract = "The aim of this chapter is to present innovations associated with the linkage of statistics and well-being and human development, where the contexts of application are poor countries, and where there is a further linkage with international efforts to tackle multidimensional poverty. The chapter begins with background information focused on the following themes: recent developments in the search for innovations; flaws in the assumptions of the existing metric (GDP); the importance of process data and its linkage with subjectivity; innovations in the human development index (HDI) system; subjective/processual breakthrough enabled by the gross national happiness system; and a brief introduction to the Flinders University statistical innovation developed to assess people's experiences of development. The chapter then presents the technical details of this innovation, operationalized in calculating human well-being in Timor-Leste, and in the Indian state of Assam. This section covers the computation of the HDI of a section of the population defined by age, namely, the population of the youth of Timor-Leste. No previous attempt is known to have been made to compute HDI for a section of the population defined by age. The final part of the chapter describes the quantification of well-being, which was operationalized as the human well-being index in Assam. This index is presented as a complementary component of the HDI system. It represents the first time a National Human Development Report has attempted to measure well-being, a subjective aspect of the quality-of-life, through developing a dedicated index.",
keywords = "Gender development index, Gross national happiness, Human development, Multidimensional poverty, Timor-Leste, Well-being index",
author = "Udoy Saikia and Gouranga Dasvarma and James Chalmers",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1016/bs.host.2018.06.008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780444640727",
volume = "39",
series = "Handbook of Statistics",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
pages = "545--575",
editor = "{Srinivasa Rao}, {Arni S.R.} and C.R. Rao",
booktitle = "Integrated Population Biology and Modeling",
address = "Netherlands",
}