The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the Dublin-based EU agency, launches EurLIFE, an interactive database of quality of life indicators.
Results from the Foundation’s European Quality of Life Survey and other statistical resources will be made available online as part of the new online searchable database EurLIFE. The new instrument, which will allow users to create graphs and tables on the basis of their own requirements, is the most recent information resource to be created by the Foundation and the first such interactive tool to assist the user in charting trends and developments in the quality of life sphere.
‘EurLIFE is an easy-access interactive information tool accessible to everyone interested in gathering data on European quality of life.’ commented Willy Buschak, Acting Director of the European Foundation. 
The unique database was developed from comparable EU-wide data sources and includes the most up-to-date information from the Foundation’s own monitoring tools on quality of life and working conditions. The data cover the 25 Member States and three candidate countries, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey and covers a broad spectrum of social indicators in a set of 12 life domains with approximately 15 indicators for each domain. It is planned to update the database every two years, from 2006.
The launching of the new tool coincides with the architectural overhaul of the Foundation’s portal, Eurofound which will further facilitate access to the Foundation’s research findings and data, with different access-points for the same information.

•  For more details: www.eurofound.eu.int