It is generally recognized, not only in science, that the progress of a community, the development of an individual’s abilities and his or her position in a complex society cannot be represented and measured exclusively in purely economic terms. Many studies conclude that economic progress does not necessarily go hand in hand with social progress, let alone quality of life or well-being. In fact, the effects of economic growth are often problems for the community that are understood as real social costs: pollution, concentration in large cities leading to the emergence of peripheral areas at risk of marginalization, alienation from work due to technological progress, the insecurity of certain social structures leading to frustration and discomfort. Recent studies by economists, sociologists and statisticians, as well as the political debate, seem to focus on the goal of linking economic growth to parameters that are difficult to restore once they have been lost, such as the balance of environmental systems, the role of man in the community, the maintenance of the basic rules of civilization. This awareness help to increase the demand (and also the supply) of information of a social nature, which also enables policy makers to understand complex realities scientifically in order to make decisions about real situations. For this reason, scientific societies, journals and publications dealing with social statistics on inequality, poverty, quality of life and well-being, both from an objective and subjective point of view, are growing by leaps and bounds, also at international level.