Many governments around the world have been expressing interest in conducting surveys to measure national well-being and in using the results to guide policy. But there remain many open questions. My co-authors and I have been thinking about several of these open questions, including: What questions should be asked on a national well-being survey? How should the responses be used to create a well-being index? The article linked below, published on VOX (the blog of the Center for Economic Policy Research) describes a recently published paper that addresses these questions.
http://www.voxeu.org/article/asking-people-which-aspects-wellbeing-matter-most