SIPHER-7 wellbeing indicators
SIPHER is building models to predict the causal relationships between policy interventions and health outcomes. SIPHER-7 is a suite of wellbeing indicators, selected by the SIPHER team through an iterative consultation process, to capture multi-dimensional wellbeing outcomes of different policies.
Typically policy makers have determined wellbeing by looking at people's income. This is a very crude measure as not everything that matters in our lives comes down to money.
SIPHER proposes a new set of indicators representing different aspects of people's lives to help us better measure their wellbeing.
Our objectives were to:
- identify a set of domains of life that collectively represent the overall wellbeing of a person
- for each domain, to identify just one indicator to best represent the domain.
The SIPHER-7 Wellbeing indicators represent the following aspects of people's lives and help us capure their wellbeing.
- Loneliness
- Neighbourhood Safety
- Housing quality
- Effects of physical health on daily activity
- Effects of mental health on daily activity
- Household disposable income
- Employment situation
But having a set of wellbeing indicators does not help those making policy decisions if a policy results in an improvement in some indicators and deterioration in others. Workstrand 6 (Societal Valuation) has produced a formula to express how good each combination of the seven wellbeing indicators are.
Related Resources
- Product Guide -SIPHER-7 Wellbeing Indicators Provides technical details of the Domain Preferences - Survey Data Set including strengths and the option to directly compare with other SIPHER products.
- SIPHER Glossary Offering clarification of our terminology
Publications:
- Review of SIPHER-7 wellbeing indicators [PDF] - December 2022
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SIPHER-7 [PDF] A seven indicator outcome measure to capture wellbeing for economic evaluation - September 2021