Understanding Well-Being Data : : Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research.

• Superior document: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series
• Author: Oman, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface: A Personal Note on Why I Wrote the Book -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Understanding Well-being Data -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introducing Well-being Data -- 1.1 Introduction to Understanding Well-being Data -- Subjective and Objective Data -- 1.2 Who Is This Book for? -- 1.3 What Is This Book Trying to Do? -- 1.4 Why Well-being Data? -- 1.5 How Are Data Cultural? -- 1.6 How Should I Use This Book? -- 1.7 Why Is the Book Written in This Order? -- The First Half -- Half Time -- The Second Half -- References -- Chapter 2: Knowing Well-being: A History of Data -- 2.1 What Is Well-being? -- Traditions of Well-being Thought -- Hedonia: Most Simply Understood as Pleasure or Positive Feeling -- Eudaimonia: Most Often Understood as Purpose or Flourishing -- Common Definitions Used with Well-being Data -- Objective Well-being -- Subjective Well-being -- 2.2 Measuring Well-being to Improve Human Welfare: A Brief History -- 2.3 Audit Culture, Value and Public Management -- Social Policy -- So, What Is Value? -- Economics, Value and Human Behaviours -- What Is Social Value? -- 2.4 Conclusion: Well-being as a Tool of Policy -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking at Well-being Data in Context -- 3.1 Well-being Measurement (Other Data Are Available) -- 3.2 Accounts of Well-being -- Objective Lists -- Preference Satisfaction -- Mental States (or Subjective Well-being) -- 3.3 Everyday Well-being Data: Asking People Questions About Their Lives -- Questionnaire Data -- Interview Data -- Ethnographic Data -- Secondary Qualitative Data -- 3.4 Objective Well-being Data and Measures -- 3.5 The OECD as a Case Study of What Lies Behind Objective Well-being Data -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Discovering 'the New Science of Happiness' and Subjective Well-being.

4.1 Happiness Economics -- The Greatest Happiness? And Other Principles -- 4.2 Positive Psychology -- 4.3 Establishing a New Science of Happiness -- 4.4 What Is Subjective Well-being? -- How Is This Well-being Measure Subjective? -- What Well-being Means to People Is Subjective -- Definitions of Subjective Well-being -- 4.5 Subjective Well-being Measures for Decision-Making -- Evaluation Measures -- Experience Measures -- 'Eudaimonic' Measures -- Psychological Well-being -- Worthwhileness and Overall Evaluation -- How These Measures Can Be Applied -- 4.6 Case Study: Subjective Well-being, by the Office for National Statistics' Design -- 4.7 Summarising What Measuring Subjective Well-being Does -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Getting a Sense of Big Data and Well-being -- 5.1 What Even Is 'Big Data'? -- 5.2 Big Data: A New Way to Understand Well-being? -- Why We Need to Ask Critical Questions of Data in the Context of Well-being -- Value -- 5.3 Are Big Data Even Actually New? -- The Darker Side of Historical Well-being Data and Commercial Gain -- 5.4 A Case Study on the Promise of Commercial Big Data -- Linking Big Datasets: For Well-being? -- 5.5 Social Media Data: A Game Changer? -- Social Media Data Mining in Social and Cultural Sectors -- Understanding Where People Are and How They Feel Using Twitter Data -- 5.6 Fit for Purpose? Health and Well-being Tracking and Apps -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Well-being, Values, Culture and Society -- 6.1 The Relationship Between Culture and Well-being -- Well-being and Culture: Reviewing the Long Theoretical Lineage -- 6.2 Cultural Policy as Social Policy -- Cultural Policy: Operationalising the Question 'What Is Culture?' -- Cultural Policy: Institutions for Well-being -- Cultural Policy: Whose Culture Is Good Culture for Well-being?.

Cultural Value and the Role of Well-being Data -- Well-being Measures: Arguing a Right to Culture? -- 6.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Evidencing Culture for Policy -- 7.1 Well-being as Evidence for Social Policy -- Data and Evidence in Cultural Policy -- 7.2 Policy Spending on Culture as Good for Society -- Well-being Data and Investment in Culture -- Policy Decisions and Investments Using Well-being Data -- 7.3 Well-being Data and Cultural Practice -- Being an Artist and Well-being -- Two Reports on the Relationship Between Being an Artist or Working in a Creative Occupation and Well-being -- 7.4 Well-being Data and 'Cultural Access' -- 7.5 Conclusion: Using Well-being Data to Understand Policy Questions -- References -- Chapter 8: Talking Different Languages of Value -- 8.1 Returning to the Culture- Well-being Relationship -- 8.2 Talking Different Languages of Value -- 8.3 Context: The Happy Museum and Data -- Taking Part Survey and the Data on Culture -- The Well-being Data Available in the Taking Part Survey -- 8.4 Museums and Happiness and Other Relationships -- 8.5 Following the Findings -- 8.6 How Was the Value of the Relationship Between Museums and Happiness Calculated? -- Some Reasons Why Findings May Differ -- 8.7 Conclusion: The Value of Valuation -- References -- Chapter 9: Understanding -- 9.1 Understanding, Well-being and Data -- 9.2 Meanings of Understanding -- The Case for Understanding in Data -- 9.3 Data Uses as Barriers to Understanding -- 9.4 Following the Data: How We Have Come to Understand Well-being Data in This Book -- References -- Index.