OECD Conference on New Frontiers in Subjective Well-being Measurement, 4 March 2024, Paris, France

1. A better understanding of domain
satisfaction: validity and policy use
New Frontiers in Subjective Well-being Measurement
OECD: Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE)
Anthony Bardo
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Kentucky
4 March 2024

2. Quality and quantity of life: a health domain example
State space for un/happy-un/healthy
transition probabilities
Proportion of life expectancy
in each of the four possible states
Bardo & Lynch (2021)

3. Reliability and validity of domain satisfaction
Bardo & Yamashita (2014)

4. Domain satisfaction and importance for happiness
Levels of domain-specific satisfaction Importance for happiness
Bardo (2017)

5. Current domain-based policy efforts
Source
Source

6. • Unlikely to find universal domain satisfaction construct
• socially/culturally informed domains
• Objective domain indicators are insufficient
• may be incongruent with subjective measures
• Domain satisfaction contributions to happiness
• lacks multidimensionality
• Contributions to eudaimonic subjective well-being
• more closely linked to quantity of life (longevity)
Future directions

7. Thank you