1. Item 9: GDP & beyond action plan

2. Background The Commission Communication on GDP and beyond (2009)
The sponsorship on measuring progress (2011)
The action plan
Results
New actions
Presented at ESSC requesting presentation at Director's groups

3. New action plan
Strengthening the household perspective and distributional aspects of ICW
Multi-dimensional measures of quality of life (broad concept)
Environmental sustainability
Consistence with the AWP
Reactive to new events

4. For social statistics
Social indicators "on a par with" macro indicators
Quality, timeliness
Flows and transitions
Skills and mobility
Quality of life
SILC (redesign)
Better use of other data sources, integration, analyses
ICW
Integration across surveys (harmonisation, matching, ..)
Links micro-macro (distributions, STIK, …)
Also relevant for NA: HH accounts, distributions, …
Need to work together (NA and social stat.), need for better integration and analysis