Time Well Spent - 9781783484256

Time Well SpentSubjective Well-Being and the Organization of Time\nAuthor(s): Daniel Wheatley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781783484256, 978-1783484256\nSynopsis\nMeasuring quality of life has been identified as fundamental in assessing the relative progress of societies and as having relevance for both monitoring and policy-making purposes. Self-reported measures of well-being, referred to as subjective well-being, have become increasingly topical given the growing awareness of the limitations of existing measures of well-being including gross domestic product (GDP). In the UK, the ONSs Happiness Index was launched in 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron. \n\nThis book aims to improve our understanding of well-being through an analysis of time-use in a post-industrial society, the UK, drawing on empirical data from large-scale surveys such as Understanding Society and smaller-scale.