ABSTRACT
It is easy to understand that the quality of life varies. Some individuals, communities or nations eat better, live longer, suffer less illness, experience greater personal safety, and have more opportunities to develop their own talents than others. The measurement of QOL, however, has for some time presented difficult problems. The national income account has provided some help, and is especially useful since it collects into a single measure a wide diversity of individual and group actions. That it correlates so highly with other welfare measures, such as life expectancy, makes it a candidate for assessing quality of life.
