Wikiprogress.stat Guidelines for Content

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This article contains the guidelines for content for progress data on wikiprogress.stat

Contents 1 Progress Topics 1.1 Ecosystems 1.2 Human Well-Being 1.3 Economy 1.4 Culture 1.5 Cross-cutting perspectives 1.6 Children 2 What is progress content? 3 See Also 4 External Links 5 Further Reading

Progress Topics

Ecosystems

• Land
• Freshwater
• Oceans and Seas
• Biodiversity
• Atmosphere
• Resources and processes provided
• Impact of natural events
• Resource extraction and consumption
• Pollution
• Protection and conservation of environmental assets

Human Well-Being

• Physical and mental health
• Knowledge and understanding
• Work
• Material Well-Being
• Freedom and Self-Determination
• Interpersonal relationships

Economy

• National Income
• National wealth
• Governance
• Human Rights
• Civic Engagement
• Security and Crime
• Access to Services
• Trust

Culture

• Cultural heritage
• Arts and Leisure

Cross-cutting perspectives

• Happiness and subjective well-being
• Development and Poverty
• Inequality

Children

• Statistics and Human Well-Being
• Gender Equality
  

What is progress content?

Progress in society... is life getting better? Wikiprogress is concerned with measuring the things that matter.

For a good portion of the 20th century there was an implicit assumption that economic growth was synonymous with progress: an assumption that a growing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) meant life must be getting better. The world now recognizes that it isn’t quite as simple as that. Despite high levels of economic growth in many countries many experts believe we are no more satisfied (or happier) with our life than we were 50 years ago; that people trust one another - and their governments - less than they used to; and that increased income has come at the expense of increased insecurity, longer working hours and greahttp://wikiprogress.org/w/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gifter complexity in our lives.

Although most regard GDP as an important measure of progress, there is a growing recognition that any assessment of a society’s progress requires evidence about social and environmental concerns as well as economic performance. In modern societies, economic wealth is only one dimension of progress and several studies show that as a country reaches higher levels of income, the more it cares about other life satisfaction dimensions (leisure time, environmental status, health, etc.).
Content and contributions to the site are welcome by all societies. International organisations, NGOs, private sector and academic in the developed, emerging and developing, post conflict and conflict communities are welcome to join the community.

Progress means different things to different people, and sets of indicators or composite indicators approach -setting out key aspects of progress side by side and discussing the links between them is a way to try to address the different dimensions in the area of progress.

See Also

• Metadata Template
• Creating Data and Metadata Files for Uploading to Wikiprogress.stat

External Links

• Wikiprogress.stat

Further Reading

• Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies, 2009, Enrico Giovannini, Jon Hall, Adolfo Morrone, Giulia Ranuzzi, OECD