Third Meeting of the beyond GDP sprint
- Virtual Meeting
- 5 April 2022

The meeting will discuss well-being initiatives associated with, and that extend, the System of National Accounts.
Tuesday, 5 April 2022: 7:00 am - 10:00 am (New York time)
Chair: Erich Strassner, Associate Director, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
7:00 am - 7:05 am
Session 1: Introduction, welcome remarks and scene-setting presentation
7:05 am - 7:30 am
Session 2: Multi-dimensional Measures of living Standards and their Policy Use
This session overviews recent initiatives of the OECD Centre on Wellbeing, Inclusion, Sustainability, and Equal Opportunity.
Presenter: Fabrice Murtin, OECD
Presentation: Beyond GDP for policy use
7:30 am - 7:55 am
Session 3: Measuring National Income Growth
This session overviews research on Measuring National Income Growth
Democratically: Methods and Estimates for the United Kingdom.
Presenter: Martin Weale, King's College and Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, United Kingdom
Presentation: A Democratic Measure of National
Income Growth
7:55 am - 8:20 am
Session 4: Measuring Wellbeing through the Level of Living
This session overviews research on wellbeing through the level of living
framework by U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Presenter: Jon Samuels, United States
Presentation: Measuring Aggregate Wellbeing through the Level of Living
8:20 am - 8:30 am
Break
8:30 am - 8:55 am
Session 5: Modernizing Time Use Surveys to Better Measure Wellbeing
The session overviews efforts by the United Nations to modernize
time-use surveys.
Presenter: Francesca Grum, United Nations
Presentation: Modernizing time use surveys
8:55 am - 9:20 am
Session 6: Measuring Unpaid Household Work
The session overviews measurement of wellbeing through development
of a household production satellite account by Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography
Presenters: Francisco Guillen and Raul Figueroa, Mexico
Presentation: Unpaid Household Work Satellite
Account of Mexico
9:20 am - 9:45 am
Session 7: Modernizing Time Use Surveys to Measure Household Work
This session overviews time-use survey developments and Household
Satellite Accounts by the U.K. Office of National Statistics.
Presenter: John Marais, United Kingdom
Presentation: Household Satellite Account
and Time-use in the UK
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Session 8: Preview of Next Meeting: Population, Society, and Well-being: Socio-demographic disaggregation of National Accounts
This session overviews the fourth meeting of the Beyond GDP Sprint.
Presenter: Timothy Miller, United Nations
Presentation: Sociodemographic
disaggregation of National Accounts
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Session 9: Consolidating discussion, next steps, and closing remarks
This session will deliver an opportunity to briefly synthesize the conversation
and identify common themes and proposed next steps.
- Are there common opportunities and challenges across the different types of wellbeing initiatives?
- What should we prioritise in any future work on wellbeing accounts?
10:00 am
Adjourn
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