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In august 2013, the European Commission published the Staff Working Document on "Progress on 'GDP and beyond' actions", in which reviews what had been achieved on the five steps identified in the communication GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing world. Some of the most significant actions taken include:
 * The European Statistical System adopted the first set of indicators on ‘quality of life and well-being’ and it also decided for the EU-SILC (EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) to be the core instrument for building up such indicators.
 * The time taken to publish key environmental indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions has been shortened by as much as eight months by using advanced statistical methods to arrive at so-called ‘early estimates’, which have proven to be sufficiently accurate to inform policy decisions. Since 2012, Eurostat has produced ‘early estimates’ — within four months — for CO2 emissions from energy use.
 * A consensus has not been reached on the EU Sustainable Development Scoreboard. However, a preliminary scoreboard of resource efficiency indicators (REI) is currently being tested and discussed.
 * The EU actively supported the finalisation and adoption by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) as the international statistical standard.
 * Since 2010, European statistics have been published on ‘annual adjusted disposable income in purchasing power standards’ and the quarterly ‘real disposable income of households’.
 * Summary indices on poverty and human development have been calculated for all 277 European regions.

In addition, the European Commission provides a list of different indicators that can be categorised into five categories :
 * GDP and other macro-economic indicators - provided by the System of National Accounts (SNA).
 * Enlarged GDP measures - include costs such as expense of environmental degradation, resource depletion or higher income inequality. They provide a more accurate indication of a country's actual economic, environmental and social performance.
 * Social indicators – combine several aspects of social progress.
 * Environmental indicators – relate to the environmental development and linked issues such as human health.
 * Well-being – include both subjective and objective measures to report on quality of life and life satisfaction.

Measuring National Well-being in the UK
In 2010 the Measuring National Well-being programme was launched in the UK. It is lead by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and its aim is to develop accepted and trusted measures of the well-being of the nation.

Following a National Debate in 2011 on “what matters” to the general public, the programme has published a series of releases on experimental methodology such as the value of the non-market production of households collected in the Household Satellite Accounts and ad-hoc analysis like the Commuting and Personal Well-being release. It has also established a series of periodic publications. For example, theHuman Capital estimates and the Life in the UK report are published annually.

The Life in the UK report was first published in November 2012 and included the National Well-being Wheel of measures, which is being updated twice a year, being the May 2014 the latest update. The wheel includes headline indicators in areas such as health, relationships, job satisfaction, economic security, education, environmental conditions and measures of 'personal well-being' (individuals' assessment of their own well-being).

The programme will continue developing and improving the measurement of the well-being of the citizens in the United Kingdom in order to report on the findings to inform both public debate and policy-making.