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{"title":"'Beyond GDP' Requires Replacement, Not Just Additional Metrics.","authors":"Jeroen van den Bergh","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03837-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-026-03837-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Political decision-making remains dominated by GDP, often at the expense of social and environmental concerns. Indicator dashboards have so far had limited impact on core policy decisions in this regard. This article argues that only replacing GDP with a comprehensive aggregate metric can overcome its dominance. To illustrate which alternative is most likely to succeed, the concept of \"perception distance\" (or similarity) to GDP is introduced, formalized and compared across key options. Furthermore, it is argued that replacing GDP with a superior aggregate metric will enhance the effectiveness of the additive approach as the new headline metric reduces tension with disaggregate domain indicators for wellbeing, inequality and sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 2","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13035633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147594522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young People's Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England.","authors":"Jake Anders, Erica Holt-White","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03776-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03776-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in society, including those associated with socio-economic status, gender and ethnicity. But, just as importantly, it is believed that they continue to cast a long shadow over some young people's lives. In this paper we use data from the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO) - a representative cohort study of over 13,000 young people in England aged 14-15 at pandemic onset whose education and post-16 transitions were acutely affected by the pandemic's disruption through their remaining education and subsequent transitions - to highlight inequalities in young people's subjective wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the pandemic. We document the substantial differences in subjective wellbeing - especially highlighting differences by gender - after adjusting for other demographic characteristics, self-reported levels of social support, and experience of adverse life events. We estimate how wellbeing differs by young people's own perceptions of the ongoing impact of the pandemic: those who indicate an ongoing negative impact in their lives have substantially lower subjective wellbeing scores. Finally, we find a link between adverse life experiences during the pandemic and lower post-pandemic wellbeing, but do not find evidence that this is mediated by demographic characteristics or social support.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"181 2","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12830484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146046691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating a 'UBI Plus' Intervention: A Needs-based Analysis of WorkFREE.","authors":"Joel Lazarus, Sarath Davala, Maria Franchi, Neil Howard, Nick Langridge, Santosh Malviya, Vibhor Mathur","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03806-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03806-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As pilots in Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots proliferate, there is increasing recognition that cash alone may not be enough to support envisioned transformation. Consequently, recent years have seen pilots in 'UBI Plus' - combinations of unconditional cash transfers with other social interventions. In this article, we present a mixed-methods needs-based evaluation of WorkFREE, a major UBI Plus pilot. Between 2020 and 2024, WorkFREE brought together UK and Indian researchers, a local NGO, and over 1,400 slum residents (295 households) in city name, India. WorkFREE participants received monthly unconditional cash transfers for eighteen months whilst participating in regular needs-focused 'Plus meetings'. This article's authors oversaw the design, implementation, and evaluation of WorkFREE both as a research project and pilot intervention. Locating human needs at an essential layer of existence and experience, we conducted all stages and aspects of our work using a needs-based approach. In this article, we use Manfred Max-Neef's (1991) framework of fundamental human needs to evaluate WorkFREE's UBI Plus pilot through a combination of quantitative data from three household surveys conducted over eighteen months and qualitative data conducted with participants over two years. We find compelling evidence that points to the synergic power of UBI Plus in supporting participants to more effectively and extensively meet not just their material, but also their psychological and relational needs. We recognise limits to our model and implementation - particularly with regard to responding to social, especially gendered, difference - but see enough evidence to advocate for UBI Plus and for needs-based approaches to research and social interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12975856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147445067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Interplay of Economic Resources, Family Decision Power, and Gender Ideology in China.","authors":"Matthew Henglong Luo, Man-Yee Kan","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03761-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03761-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender ideology, the support for a gendered division of paid work and family responsibilities, is a crucial ideological indicator in investigating gender qualities at the couple level. In contrast, economic dependence measures the actual income disparities at the couple level. The two concepts are intertwined with and mutually reinforce each other within marriage. In this study, we propose a mechanism where intra-family decision power interacts with economic dependence to shape gender ideologies and empirically examine it in China. Drawing on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), our analysis suggests that married women in dual-earner families who adhere to traditional gender ideologies are more likely to be economically dependent on their husbands. On the other side of the loop, a woman's economic dependence interacts with her intra-family decision power to shape her gender ideology. Intra-family decision power moderates the relationship between economic dependence and gender ideologies so that wives with relatively high economic independence and decision power hold the least traditional gender ideologies, while those with high economic dependence and decision power exhibit the most traditional gender ideologies. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for gender disparities in the division of labor and the development of gender ideologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"181 1","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12727719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145834855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of Well-Being: A Causal Framework.","authors":"Lea A Tamberg, Vivien Fisch-Romito, Julia K Steinberger","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03816-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-026-03816-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Different philosophical strands have developed distinct well-being conceptions, which are nevertheless strongly linked. For instance, many typical well-being components in eudaimonic philosophies correlate with subjective life assessment measures. Existing empirical research also provides many insights into which factors determine human well-being, such as health and the quality of relationships. However, the causal ordering of these factors is often not explicitly considered, although doing so would be crucial for the identification of intervention points and a correct estimation of effect sizes in empirical studies. In response to these two observations, we propose a unified causal framework of the main pathways determining human well-being in its different conceptions, with a focus on those prominent in sustainability research and the subjective well-being community. The framework considers environmental, economic, societal, political, social, and psychological factors and shows how they interact. It combines insights from theories of human needs, the capabilities approach, and research on subjective indicators. We illustrate the use of the framework with examples of societal interventions on well-being, environmental impacts, and sustainable well-being policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 2","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12995919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147487245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring Informed Choice for Contraception in Burkina Faso: Comparing self-rated and researcher-ascribed measures.","authors":"Brooke W Bullington, Katherine Tumlinson, Nathalie Sawadogo, Claire W Rothschild, Leigh Senderowicz","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03650-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03650-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While self-rated measures that rely on participant's perceptions of themselves are common in public health, they remain underused in contraceptive research. Family planning scholars often rely on researcher-ascribed measures of success that capture whether people have the criteria researchers deem necessary for a given outcome. As family planning researchers shift toward rights-based outcomes, understanding women's perceptions of their contraceptive knowledge is imperative.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We sought to determine whether researcher-ascribed measures of contraceptive knowledge or information provided during contraceptive counseling and self-rated measures of informed choice for contraception align. Informed choice captures whether people have sufficient, unbiased information about their contraceptive options.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using data from a population-based sample of 3,929 reproductive-aged women in Burkina Faso, we compared researcher-ascribed measures, including the informed choice subdomain of the contraceptive autonomy indicator (CAIC) and the Method Information Index (MII), with novel self-rated measures of informed choice developed based on formative research, including in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, that capture people's perceptions of their contraceptive knowledge (self-rated overall informed choice and self-rated method-specific informed choice) using Cohen's Kappa Statistic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We find that researcher-ascribed measures of contraceptive knowledge and counseling content diverge substantially from self-rated measures of informed choice. CAIC and self-rated overall informed choice had no agreement (Kappa: -0.03); the MII and self-rated method-specific informed choice had no to slight agreement (Kappa=0.05). These findings reveal that the information researchers consider important for informed choice may not align with women's perceptions of their informed choice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Both researcher-ascribed and self-rated measures provide uniquely important information needed to inform family planning programs and should be measured on population-based surveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"179 2","pages":"1119-1141"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12526126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining Work Temporality Across the U.S. Latino Population by Nativity and Citizenship.","authors":"Sung S Park, Anne R Pebley, Noreen Goldman, Mara Getz Sheftel, Boriana Pratt","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03545-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03545-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employees' lives are structured by when and how much they work, which we refer to as \"work temporality.\" While Latinos, the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the U.S. labor force, are disproportionately employed in jobs with unpredictable work schedules, it is unclear how their time at work, broadly defined, varies within this group. This study addresses this gap by examining the temporal dimensions of work among Latinos in the U.S. by nativity and citizenship status and compares them to native-born White and Black workers. We analyze a range of detailed measures that capture the multidimensional nature of work temporality: duration (weekly hours), variability (changes in weekly hours), and timing (evening/night shifts, early/late weekday schedule, weekend work), in addition to conventional measures of non-standard work schedules. We estimate these conventional and detailed measures for five race/ethnicity/nativity/citizenship groups using the Survey of Income and Program Participation from 2014 to 2021. We assess whether these observed differences are maintained after controlling for compositional differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics. The results indicate that relying wholly on conventional indicators can underestimate Latinos' exposure to non-traditional work schedules, particularly for female Latino non-citizens. Instead, considering the temporal dimensions of duration, variability, and timing in concert may be more informative. The findings contribute to our understanding of how Latinos' time at work is organized, and the stratifying roles of gender, nativity, and citizenship in the U.S. labor market.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"177 3","pages":"1289-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12383238/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144969741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation and Validation of the Malayalam Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale.","authors":"Kelly Cotton, Sanish Sathyan, Soumya Jacob, K S Shaji, Emmeline Ayers, Dristi Adhikari, Alben Sigamani, V G Pradeep Kumar, Joe Verghese","doi":"10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The subjective happiness scale (SHS) is a brief instrument used to measure global subjective happiness that has been translated from its original English to many other languages. To date, there is no reported translation of this scale into Malayalam, a language spoken by over 32 million people especially in the southern state of Kerala, India. In the present study, 656 community-dwelling older adults participating in the Kerala Einstein study (KES) completed the Malayalam version of the SHS. The Malayalam version demonstrated high internal consistency and good convergent validity, as assessed by comparison to measures of depression and anxiety. We also used factor analysis to determine that the Malayalam version of the SHS has a unidimensional structure, akin to the original English as well as other language adaptations. Our study adds to the repertoire of tools to measure happiness in non-English-speaking populations, enabling future research to explore the foundations of well-being across diverse cultures.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"176 1","pages":"245-255"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813988/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long-term Care Needs and Fuel Poverty among Older People: Beyond Energy Consumption and Affordability.","authors":"Javiera Cartagena-Farias, Nicola Brimblecombe, Bo Hu, Sam Rickman","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03653-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03653-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both financial disadvantage and poor housing conditions are recognised as social determinants of poorer health and health inequalities across and within countries. In the UK and some other nations, low income and housing problems in interaction manifest as 'fuel poverty'-a measure of a household's ability to keep their homes warm. In these countries, tackling fuel poverty has become a priority, not least because of the known negative effects on health. Nevertheless, there is no gold standard measurement of fuel poverty, and there is also, more importantly, scant evidence on the relationship between fuel poverty and the development of long-term care needs among older people, which is important as understanding this relationship could inform preventative policy interventions aimed at reducing care needs and associated costs. Older people spend a larger proportion of their time indoors and the role of fuel poverty has wider health and social care impacts that go beyond immediate household hardship. This paper i) develops a data-driven measure of fuel poverty that goes beyond household income and energy consumption, ii) explores whether fuel poverty is associated with the development of care needs, an increase in care needs, and/or a decline in mental health among older people, and iii) whether there are any inequalities in the role played by fuel poverty across more potentially vulnerable groups. We use the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a large representative sample of people aged 50 or over. Structural Equation Modelling was used to provide a latent and comprehensive definition of fuel poverty. We found that fuel poverty is associated with a greater risk of developing long-term care needs and worse mental health. We also found that fuel poverty is multidimensional and as such, influences the development of care needs from many fronts. We provide evidence on the importance of reducing fuel poverty as a potential prevention mechanism of higher (or development of) care needs, and is particularly relevant in the current energy and cost-of-living crisis context in many countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"179 3","pages":"1221-1240"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12511146/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145281160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Where and Whom You Collect Weightings from Matters…\" Capturing Wellbeing Priorities Within a Vulnerable Context: A Case Study of Volta Delta, Ghana.","authors":"Laurence Cannings, Craig W Hutton, Kristine Nilsen, Alessandro Sorichetta","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03524-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03524-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wellbeing is a crucial policy outcome within sustainable development, yet it can be measured and conceptualised in various ways. Methodological decisions, such as how different components are weighted, can influence wellbeing classification. Many studies utilise equal weighting, assuming each component is equally important; however, does this reflect communities' lived experiences? This study outlines a multidimensional basic needs deprivation measure constructed from the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) survey dataset in Volta Delta, Ghana. Participatory focus groups, interviews and weighting exercises with communities and District Planning Officers (DPOs) explore different subgroups' wellbeing priorities. Comparative analysis examines the weights provided across genders, decision-making levels and livelihoods; including farming, fishing and peri-urban groups. Objective survey data is also combined with various subjective weights to explore the sensitivity of the overall deprivation rate and its spatial distribution. Significant weight differences are found between livelihoods, with farming and fishing communities weighting \"employment\", \"bank access\", and \"cooperative membership\" higher, whereas peri-urban communities apply a greater weight to \"healthcare access\". Differences between decision-making levels are also noted. Community members weight \"employment\" higher, while DPOs assign a larger score to \"cooperative membership\". In contrast, consistent weights emerge across genders. Furthermore, applying community livelihood weights produces lower deprivation rates across most communities compared to DPO or equal nested weights. Overall, significant differences between subgroups' weights and the sensitivity of wellbeing measurement to weighting selection illustrate the importance of not only collecting local weights, but also <i>where and whom</i> you collect weightings from matters.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-025-03524-x.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"177 2","pages":"863-908"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11993479/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144031862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}