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Development of Family Well-Being Index:
Malaysia’s Experience
Anjli Doshi-Gandhi, (PhD)Deputy Director General
National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
4th OECD WORLD FORUMNew Delhi,
16-19 Oct. 2012
Rationale
Background
To build a set of indicators to measure the well-being of the Malaysian family
Mechanism to monitor family well being trends
To come up with family well-being index
To identify some “Priorities for Action” to enhance the well being of the family
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Level Achievement
FAMILY WELL-BEING(OBJECTIVE)
Perceptions on family satisfaction Well being and happiness
Health indicatorsHousing areaPublic’s safetyMarriage rates
FAMILY WELL-BEING(SUBJECTIVE)
Family member’s satisfactionFamily happinessInteraction/family relationshipsFamily functioningResilient family
Background
FAMILY WELL-BEING
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Family Safety
Family Economy
Family & Community
Family Relationship
Culture, religion/Spirituality
Family Health
Conceptual ModelFamily well-Being
Housing &
Environment
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Family Well-Being Index and Domains
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Family Well-Being Index
Domain's Index
Family Relationships7.82
Family’s Economic Sit-uation6.90
Family’s Health7.38
Family’s Safety7.39
Family & Community7.83
Family & Religion/Spiritual
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Family &Environment
7.28
Family Well-Being Index7.55
Development of Family Well-Being Index: Lessons Learnt
• Objective and Subjective Indicators• Identification of Domains and Indicators • No of Indicators for Domains• Weightage for Domains• Single variable to measure domains• Scoring of Indicators- Uniformity of Likert scale
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