Canadian Index of Wellbeing

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The Canadian Index of Wellbeing is a cooperative effort among several nonprofit institutions concerned with measuring well-being in Canada. Coordinated by the Atkinson Foundation and championed by Canadian health advocate Roy Romanow, it combines such regional measurements as the GPI Atlantic measure used in Atlantic Canada and directly supported by quasi-governmental organizations such as the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

It seeks to "account honestly and accurately for changes in our human, social, economic and natural wealth through a new index that can best capture the full range of factors that determine wellbeing in Canada."

This is the most coordinated attempt that exists to establish a single quality of life indicator for Canada outside the Government of Canada itself, which committed to create such indicators to guide major financial decisions in 2003 (see Canada Well-Being Measurement Act and Genuine Progress Indicator).