• Analysis, scores and results

Analysis, scores and results

This document presents proceedings of the OCED’s second World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies.’  The proceedings, in which leaders from 130 countries took part, emphasise the key role of access to information in judging the progress of societies. They also note that access to a comprehensive and intelligible portrait of the question – whether or not life has got and is likely to get better – is lacking in many societies.

The Forum called for a broad initiative to discuss and develop best practice around both the measures of progress, and ways in which those measures can better improve democratic dialogue. The Istanbul Declaration, signed by international and national organizations during the Forum, reinforced the Global project on measuring the progress of societies.

The proceedings contain 40 papers and are organized under the following ten headings:

• Measuring progress: does it make a difference for policy making and democracy?
• Measuring progress and political processes to foster progress
• Accountability and civic engagement
• Measuring progress:people’s perceptions and knowledge
• Subjective measures of well-being
• Challenges for national statistical offices
• Measuring progress: Economic, social and environmental issues
• Gender: Key dimension of societal progress
• Measuring societal progress for local communities
• Using indicators to make governments accountable.
  
  

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