Fourth webinar of the series: Measuring people's perceptions, evaluations and experiences, 2 October 2020, More information at: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/lac-well-being-metrics.htm

1. SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
MEASURES IN LAC
Policy experiences in the LAC region
Sebastian Nieto Parra
Head of the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit
OECD Development Centre
“Metrics for Policies for Well-being and Sustainable
Development in LAC” Webinar Series
Friday, October 2th, 2020

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Subjective well-being measures vs GDP per capita:
Fundamental to use subjective measures in policy-making
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Perceived
safety
Satisfaction
with housing
conditions
Corruption is
widespread in
government
Satisfaction
with the
education
system
Satisfaction
with living
standards
Someone to
count on
Life
satisfaction
% of people
reporting no
health
problems
LAC average LAC worst performer LAC best performer
Comparison of actual and predicted well-being outcomes for the LAC region,
and for the best and worst performing countries, given GDP per capita
Source: OECD et al. (2019), Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition, OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/g2g9ff18-en.

3. Digital transformation brings unprecedented
opportunities to measure subjective well-being
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38
36
29
34
31 30
18
21 20
18
14
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5
10
15
20
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30
35
40
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0 - 25 25 - 50 50 - 75 75 - 100
Relative popularity of
internet searches (%)
Governments' approval (%)
Chart TitleSearches for jobs Searches for corruption Searches for insecurity
Popularity of searches in Google for corruption, jobs, and insecurity
vs Governments’ approval rates
Source: Montoya, N., S. Nieto-Parra, J. Vázquez, R. Orozco (2020), "Using Google data to understand governments’ approval in Latin
America", OECD Development Centre Working Papers, No. 343, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/89ed5e8f-en.

4. There are large gaps in access and connectivity associated
with aspects such as location and socio-economic status
Number of students per computer and per Internet-connected
computer by socio-demographic characteristics, LAC and OECD averages,
2015 and 2018
Source: OECD et al. (2020), Latin American Economic Outlook 2020: Digital Transformation for Building Back Better, OECD
Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/e6e864fb-en
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1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
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Village Small town
(3 000 - 15 000
people)
Town (15 000 -
100 000)
City (100 000 -
1 000 000)
Large city
(> 1 000 000)
1 2 3 4 Public Private
Location Proportion of socio-economically disadvantaged students
(quartiles)
School ownership
Number of students
LAC average 2018 OECD average 2018

5. http://www.latameconomy.org/EconomicOutlook/
@OECD_Centre
Sebastián Nieto Parra
Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit
OECD Development Centre
@snietoparra