Measuring societal wellbeing

Measuring Wellbeing in the SOEP

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure...

1 using subjective wellbeing measuring wellbeing and cost - effectiveness analysis DISCUSSION PAPER 1

Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy

Many experts now recognize that income is not a measure that alone captures the wellbeing of individuals, and governments around the world are starting to rethink the ways in which they measure the welfare of their citizens. Wellbeing is best understood as a multifaceted phenomenon that can be assessed by measuring a wide array of subjective and objective constructs. This review summarizes the ...

Measuring Emotional Wellbeing with a Non-intrusive Bed Sensor

We examine the possibility of using non-intrusive bed sensor measures to ascertain the emotional wellness of an individual. To this end we did a convergent validation study to determine whether heart rate and respiration measures provided by the bed sensor correlate with self reports through questionnaires. The results show that negative affect and worry tension positively correlate with noctur...

Validity of altmetrics data for measuring societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime

Can altmetric data be validly used for the measurement of societal impact? The current study seeks to answer this question with a comprehensive dataset (about 100,000 records) from very disparate sources (F1000, Altmetric, and an in-house database based on Web of Science). In the F1000 peer review system, experts attach particular tags to scientific papers which indicate whether a paper could b...