Culture, Wellbeing, and the Living Standards Framework

As part of its work programme to develop the Living Standards Framework (LSF) and the LSF Dashboard, the New Zealand Treasury commissioned the AERU and Ihi Research to provide insight into important aspects of intergenerational wellbeing.

The AERU’s work examined how culture appears in the LSF, demonstrating how the structure of the Framework could be used to create a Cultural Wellbeing Framework to assist decisions on investment in culture for wellbeing. The report supported the inclusion of culture in a wellbeing monitoring framework, both to honour its universal importance to human wellbeing, as well as recognising Government’s unique role in addressing cultural wellbeing. The publication was part of a larger research report, AERU Research Report No. 353.

Related Links

• Research Report: Culture, Wellbeing, and the Living Standards Framework