It contains a set of concrete actions and development work to be undertaken to update the statistical system to the changing needs for new information.
This report is based on the information as provided by the reports of the three Task Forces:
Chapter 2 provides the background of the project and the conceptual and methodological fundaments of the work, as well as some overarching issues.
Chapter 3 summarises the concrete actions and development work respectively in
the domain of the “Household perspective and distributional aspects of income, consumption and wealth” (sub-chapter 3.1based on the report of the Task Force 1);
the domain of “Multidimensional measures of quality of life” (sub-chapter 3.2 based on the report of the Task Force 3) and
the domain of “Environmental sustainability” (sub-chapter 3.3 (based on the report of the Task Force 2).
In each of these sub-chapters, the widely formulated recommendations from the SSFC report and “GDP and Beyond” Communication are narrowed down to a set of concrete actions and positioned in thelight of the current situation in the specific fields of statistics, the main available data sources and possible further developments. Each of these sub-chapters provides key findings and a list of indicators.
Chapter 4 discusses the next steps and proposes actions for communicating the results of the Sponsorship Group.
Annex 1 provides an overview of related initiatives at European and international level.
