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At that time, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) joins
the OECD proposal and undertakes the design of a tool on its website that
would allow viewing the welfare indicators defined within the OECD and
adapted to both the availability and information needs of the country. The
ultimate goal of this collaboration is to have a significant set of welfare
indicators for citizens as well as those responsible for public policies to use to
design public policies and improve their results. These indicators will allow
evaluating the living conditions in the Mexican states in the different
dimensions of well-being, covering both aspects of material conditions as well
as the quality of life.
In order to fulfill this mission, a series of meetings with the OECD and the
signing of an agreement between both institutions are undertaken whose
purpose is to build a system of territorial indicators of welfare and thus have
an input of public policies at the local level, and give bases to the governments
to undertake public policies that allow to improve the life of people in a
tangible way. In this time, Mexican states have demanded to INEGI a system
of indicators to be comparable, transparent, updated with their metadata, in a
timely manner that allows them to compare and to contrast successful public
policies in well-being. INEGI took the decision to implement this initiative in
Mexico and suggested the governor of the state of Morelos to conduct a pilot
test, together with United States, Italy, Denmark, UK, and the Netherlands. The
result of this test was very successful, and Morelos continued working with the
OECD until 2018, at the end of the government period. After this, INEGI
decided to bring all the Mexican states, not only with a document that let us
know the situation of each of the states and compare them but through a web
site that allows these indicators to be permanently updated, with time series,
with different way of viewing these indicators with their metadata. In such a
way, that they can be consulted at any time and not lose its validity. Something
very important to say in this project is that it was not just a work of the OECD
and INEGI each of the Mexican states were participating from the beginning.
So that, it is not a project with a focus on a product, but on users, because
they participated in the definition of indicators that could be more useful for
all the Mexican states.
For the case of Mexico, the work group defined 12 themes with their
respective indicators grouped
as follows:

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