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The next update is due end November this year. We invite all of you to have a look at the SSI and see for yourself to what extent the SSI may serve the purpose of measuring wellbeing. We certainly don’t say the SSI is the one and only solution for all measurement problems. But it is at least a good one. That opinion is very much supported by the recent audit of the SSI by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, JRC. The conclusion of JRC is ‘that the revised SSI framework is conceptually coherent and meets the statistical requirements set by JRC. The SSI is well suited to assess nation’s development towards sustainability in its broad sense: Human, Environmental and Economic Wellbeing.’ The final report of JRC’s audit of the SSI will be published shortly. All JRC’s recommendations have already been implemented in the next update SSI-2012, which will be available in a month. And of course, all three previous editions of the SSI have been recalculated in accordance with the new framework, so one can see developments over time.
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