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Themes Indicators
Voter turnout
Civic engagement
Stakeholder engagement to developing regulations
Self-reported health
Health
Life expectancy
Life satisfaction Life satisfaction

Homicide rate
Safety
Feeling safe walking alone at night
Work-life Balance Time devoted to leisure and persona care

How you can see the Better life Index brings together many indicators,
expressed in different units (dollars, years, percentage, etc.) so its
standardization is necessary to facilitate comparison between countries. This
process is performed according to a standard formula that converts the
original values of the indicators into numbers that vary in a range of 0 (for the
worst possible result) and 1 (for the best possible result).
Based on these indicators, the user can generate a “flower”, assigning the
importance it considers fair to each theme where each “flower” represents a
country, each petal one of the 11 themes and the length of the petal
represents the country's rating on the subject, while the width represents the
importance that the user assigned.
Parallel to international work to approach a measurement, both objective
and subjective, of welfare, in May 2011, takes place in Mexico City, the Latin
American Conference for the measurement of welfare and the promotion of
the progress of societies whose objectives were:
· Deepen the debate on how to measure social progress and well-being in
Latin America;
· Improve the relevance of current measurements and analysis to address
fundamental policy issues related to progress and social welfare, and;
· Achieve concrete results, establish frameworks and open new routes for
future work . The main conclusions of that Conference were:
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· The measurement of welfare goes beyond money and GDP, and requires
the consideration of objective and subjective dimensions. The
measurement of well-being must focus on individuals and households.
· In Latin America, the important dimensions of well-being include health,
education, working conditions, housing, economic situation, interpersonal
relations, availability of free time, access to social protection, effective
citizenship, law enforcement and ethnic and gender equality.

3 INEGI (2011), Conclusiones de la Conferencia Latinoamericana para la Medición del Bienestar
y la promoción del progreso de las sociedades. http://mfps.inegi.org.mx/Default.aspx

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