Canadian Index of Wellbeing
University of Waterloo
Faculty of Health Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Thursday, May 12, 2005
By André Picard, Globe and Mail
Economic indicators only tell part of the story. Enter the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).
What is the best measure of the health of a nation? In our money-obsessed, business-driven society, we tend to depend on a narrow set of economic indicators like gross domestic product, fluctuations of the dollar, and the closing numbers of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).