The Guidelines were prepared by the UNECE task force on measurement of well-being. The task force was established by the Bureau of the Conference of European Statisticians in October 2023 and worked until June 2025. The Guidelines are the result of its joint work. The task force was composed of the following members: Amit Yagur-Kroll (Israel, Chair), Lusine Markosyan (Armenia), Kari Wolanski and Craig Joyce (Canada), Jean-Marc Germain (France), Sarah Crilly, Keith McSweeney and Morgan O’Donnel (Ireland), Alessandra Tinto (Italy), Tadashi Yokoyama and Kaneta Sato (Japan), Etienne Caruana and Leanne Marie Vassallo (Malta), Edwin Horlings and Moniek Coumans (Netherlands), Simon Brown, Sini Miller and Mark Turner (New Zealand), Anna Bienkunska and Arkadiusz Góralczyk (Poland), Sérgio Bacelar (Portugal), Ludmila Ivancikova (Slovakia), Eleanor Rees and Richard Heys (United Kingdom), Thesia Garner (United States, BLS), Georgiana Ivan (Eurostat), Lara Fleischer (OECD), Gwyther Rees and Deepak Kumar Dey (UNICEF), Pablo Villatoro (UNECLAC), Annegeke Jansen (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Francesca Grum and Iliana Vaca Trigo (UNSD), Carsten Boldsen, Simiao Wang and Evita Sisene (UNECE).

The chapters of the Guidelines were drafted by lead authors Amit Yagur-Kroll (Israel), Edwin Horlings (Netherlands), Eleanor Rees (United Kingdom) and Lara Fleischer (OECD). Deepak Kumar Dey (UNICEF) was the lead author of the Annex. Task force members contributed with comments and suggestions to draft versions of the chapters.