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> Information on Indicator Initiatives
> Individual Indicies and Indicators

There are numerous international organisations and global partnerships dedicated to developing indicators for measuring progress, true wealth, and well-being. The following links provide access to further information on a selected group of these initatives, as well as descriptions of specific indicators.

Information on Indicator Initiatives

> National and international organisations
> NGOs and research

The following links point to just a few of the many collections of indicators available online.

National and international organisations

• Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz Commission, France)
• EC Joint Research Center (JRC) Composite Indicators
• Europe 2020: EU's growth strategy
• Eurostat’s Sustainable Development Indicators
• Gross National Happiness Commission, Bhutan
• Measuring Welfare in Germany (Umweltbundesamt, Germany)
• OECD Global Project – Measuring the Progress of Societies (including the Istanbul Declaration)
• OECD Indicator Initiatives
• OECD Knowledge Base – Measuring Progress Around the World
• Study Commission on Growth, Wellbeing and Quality of Life of German Parliament (in German)
• United Nations Organisations’ Indicators (System-wide Earth Watch)

NGOs and research

• BellagioSTAMP principles for sustainability assessment
• European System of Social Indicators
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) The Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives
• International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS)
• Netherlands Institute for Social Research
• World Database of Happiness (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Individual Indices and Indicators

The following links point to just a few of the many indices and indicators that have been developed.

• Adjusted net savings (Genuine Savings) and Wealth of Nations
• Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators (USA)
• Canadian Index of Wellbeing
• Composite Learning Index
• Ecological Footprint
• European Commission environment-related indicators
• European Environment Agency’s Core Set of Indicators
• Environmental Performance Index and related Environmental Performance Measurement Project
• European Values Survey
• EU Lisbon Strategy, structural indicators
• EU sustainable development indicators
• Findicator - A Finnish set of indicators for social progress (in English, Finnish and Swedish)
• Genuine Progress Indicator
• GLOBECO - World Happines Index, 2011 (in English and French)
• Green City Index (Economist Intelligence Unit and Siemens)
• Happiness
• Happy Planet Index
• Human Development Index (reports, UN)
• Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender Related Development Index (GDI), Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
• Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
• Living Planet Index
• Measure of Domestic Progress (NEF)
• Natural Capital Index
• Prosperity Index (Legatum)
• Prosperity Quintet
• SCP Life situation index (the Netherlands)
• Sustainability Index (FEEM SI)
• Sustainable National Income (SNI)
• Sustainable Society Index
• Your Better Life Index (OECD)

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