Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.

Contact Information:Social Indicator Section, Department of Statistics, Directorate General of Budget, Accounting Statistics(DGBAS)
Tel:886-2-2380-3436　　Email:shyuan@dgbas.gov.tw

August 30, 2013 The international indicator set score (in the light of the OECD's "Your Better Life Index" (BLI)) of the National Well-being Indicators(NWI) in R.O.C.(Taiwan) is 6.64, ranked 19^th among the OECD member and partnership countries.

Brief Description

●The international indicator set of the NWI in R.O.C.(Taiwan) ranks 19^th.

　　For purposes of international comparison and to represent domestic characteristics, the NWI in R.O.C.(Taiwan) embraces two sets of indicators－international indicators and domestic indicators.

　　The international indicators for compiling composite index are based completely on the BLI's 24 indicators. DGBAS compiles the composite index with the calculation method of BLI and averages with equal weights. The BLI score of our nation in 2013 is 6.64. Our nation ranks 19^th among the OECD member and partnership countries.

　　The domestic indicators provide more specific information about people's lives and are presented separately. There is no composite index will be added up.

●Our nation performs better in material living conditions than quality of life.

　　Concerning with the topics, the rankings in the topics of "Income and Wealth", "Housing conditions" and "Jobs and Earnings" related to material living conditions are all into the top 10 among the OECD member and partnership countries(4^th, 9^th and 10^th, respectively). In the conceptual pillar of quality of life, our nation only performs better in the topic of "Personal security"(3^rd). It's obviously that the performance in material living conditions is much better than the quality of life in our nation. In the topic of "Environmental quality" still have much need to improve. In other 6 topics remaining, our nation ranks moderately. In the topic of "supjective Well-Being", OECD adopts the measurement of "Life Satisfaction (Cantril Ladder)", and the data is based on the Gallup World Poll. The score of our nation in 2012 is 6.1(25^th).

●An interactive website (（http://happy_index.dgbas.gov.tw）) is proposed simultaneously, and an on-line survey is also available for citizens to express their opinions on domestic indicators.