Paul Allin

The wellbeing of nations : meaning, motive and measurement

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The development of comparable European cultural statistics

Abstract UK cultural statistics are far from complete, so the development of comparable European cultural statistics sounds like an ambitious task and one for which clear objectives are needed. One spin‐off from comparing the statistical systems of different countries should be some improvement in national statistics, as best practice is examined and taken up by other countries. However, the essence of the on‐going programme of work described in this chapter is the search for a common statistical language, to be used whenever cross‐country comparisons are wanted or European totals are to be compiled. Compiling cultural statistics for different countries on a comparable basis sounds like a contradiction: how can the cultures of one country be harmonised with those of another? The key is to identify why the comparison needs to be made. In this chapter, therefore, current developments in European cultural statistics are reviewed by first exploring the needs for pan‐European cultural statistics that flow from policy. The chapter describes and reviews a European Union project to develop cultural statistics that reported at the end of 1999. The results of this project have been taken into the European statistical system. Hardly any statistical results have yet been published. The chapter questions how far this work will progress beyond the UNESCO framework for cultural statistics. One significant issue is that the UNESCO framework, compiled some 15 years ago, gave relatively little attention to the creative industries. These industries now feature more strongly in policy responses to the wider economic and social challenges facing European countries and the European Union. The new work on cultural statistics gives some recognition to the creative industries but it does not embrace the full extent of the creative industries as defined in the UK.

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English cultural policy: Is well-being the goal?

Cameron was speaking at the launch of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Measuring National Well-being (MNW) Programme. This programme is intended to provide wider measures of the nation’s progress, beyond just focusing on gross domestic product (GDP). It captures more fully the performance of the economy as well as quality of life, the environment and sustainability. While ONS was responding to the needs of government policy-makers, it was also aware of a number of other voices calling for wider measures of well-being and progress, prompted by an increasing awareness that, by looking only at GDP and the national economic accounts, we are “Mismeasuring our lives” (Stiglitz , Sen, & Fitoussi, 2010). Meeting policy needs is an important task for the ONS, and it provides a significant contribution to the justification for public funding of official statistics. But its role is also to meet wider needs. In the case of the national well-being programme, that element concerned with measuring the personal well-being of individuals proved the most attractive to policy-makers. At the launch event several policy areas were selected to show how personal well-being – for example, of victims of crime – was being included in analysis to develop policy. Although the cultural sector was not showcased then, participation in art, sport and culture is recognised as one of the “systematic” drivers of individual well-being “typically covered by policy” (Allin, 2014, p. 437). The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was no stranger to social policy, as its active involvement in the policy action teams on social exclusion in the late 1990s confirmed (DCMS, 1999). Newbigin, a special adviser at the time, noted that “Slippery terms such as ‘inclusiveness’, ‘cohesion’, ‘identity’ and ‘well-being’” increasingly appeared in cultural policy documents by the 1997 New Labour government (Newbigin, 2011, p. 231). The ONS work on measuring well-being applied to its UK-wide remit. But since UK cultural policy has been devolved for a long time, policy, administered through DCMS, is generally not