A fuzzy approach to face the multidimensional aspects of well-being

The new impulse from European Commission's “Beyond GDP” and the Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi's report renewed the necessity to define new indicators of well-being that go beyond GDP, and increased the need of measuring complex dimensions of living not measurable with classical techniques. Concepts as quality of life, child well being, health are mediated by human perception and intangible evaluation. A fuzzy logic approach gives the opportunity to face these problems thanks to its capability to work in a framework of uncertainty, ambiguity and vague information, situations that are typical of social and human problems. This paper provides the results based on different socioeconomic surveys with the use of fuzzy logic.