RT Book, Section
A1 OECD
T1 What are the social outcomes of education?
JF Education at a Glance
YR 2011
FD Sep 13
SP 192
OP 202
AB There is growing interest in looking beyond the traditional economic measures of individual success, such as income, employment and GDP per capita, towards non-economic aspects of well-being and social progress, such as life satisfaction, civic engagement and health. Recent initiatives, such as the Stiglitz-Sen Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress and the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, have been prompted by concerns that society is not as cohesive as it should be and that citizens are not as healthy and happy as they deserve to be. Several OECD countries have seen a decline in indicators of civic engagement, such as voting, volunteering and interpersonal trust, changes that may well have significant and lasting consequences for the quality of democratic societies (OECD, 2010).
PB Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
DO 10.1787/eag-2011-15-en
UL http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/;jsessionid=5866sjeli8s3g.x-oecd-live-01content/chapter/eag-2011-15-en