1. Item 2 - Terms of Reference
Expert Group on Quality of Life Indicators
1st meeting
Item 2 - Terms of Reference
15 June 2012
ESTAT.DDG.LAB: Laboratory for developments in cross-cutting statistical domains

2. Previous steps
Sponsorship Group (SpG) on “Measuring Progress, Well- being and Sustainable Development”*
launched in spring 2010 with representatives from Eurostat, OECD, UNECE, EU and EFTA
Aimed to adapt the recommendations by the Stiglitz-Sen- Fitoussi Report (SSF, Sep 2009)**
3 Task Forces (+1 TF on cross-cutting issues)
TF1 – On household perspective and distributional aspects of income, consumption and wealth
TF2 – On environmental sustainability
TF3 – On multidimensional measures of Quality of Life
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3. Expert Group on Quality of Life Indicators
Among the conclusions reached by the SpG:
To set up an expert group for the refinement of the scoreboard of indicators and their computation; the group should represents users, producers and other stakeholders
In November 2011, the ESSC endorsed the final report of the SpG
The Directors of Social Statistics meeting of 21 March issued the ToR and mandate for the EG on QoL indicators 3

4. EG QoLI Composition: members from
Delegates from NSIs (or National Statistical authorities) [5-7]
Academia [3] and ESocS [1]
Commission (DG ESTAT, DG EMPL, JRC) and EU agencies (Eurofound for EQLS)
OECD
Scope
Finalising the list of indicators on QoL, based on a literature review and a proposal for synthetic indicators
Developing the indicators, based on sound theoretical standards
Presenting and disseminating the scoreboard 4

5. EG QoLI Kick-off meeting: June 15, 2012
2 -3 meetings per year (written consultations and exchanges of information in beetween meetings)
Expected duration of work: 2 to 3 years
Eurostat-F4 Quality of Life: chair and secretariat 5