text: "social concern" indicates an identifiable and definable aspiration or concern of fundamental and direct importance to human well-being as opposed to a matter of instrumental or indirect importance to well­ being. 32. In eight areas related to human well-being ranging from health to time and leisure, and from individual development through learning to social opportunity and participation, 24 fundamental social concerns are specified, 14 of which are accompanied by one or more substantive subconcerns, although they are not meant to be comprehensive.25 Some of the specified subconcerns need further specification before they are translated into statistical indicators. Unlike the UNRISD ver­ sion, this social concern approach includes a significant number of sub­ jective indicators relevant and meaningful at the advanced level of de­ velopment of OECD member countries. Although their indicators are structured in a hierarchy, it is still questionable whether the recom­ mended subconcern indicators are significantly and validly connected with the social goals and fundamental social concerns. However, there is evidence to indicate that middle-range theories were applied in the selection of subconcern indicators for OECD member countries. 33. The framework of the OECD version was adopted and further advanced by the Japanese Government26 and, more recently, by a group of experts in the Philippines.27 Although the over-all framework and structure of the Japanese social indicators system resembles that of the OECD version, there are a number of items which show the deliberate effort by the Japanese study group to reflect their unique conditions and concerns, and to expand the skeleton of the OECD version into a full-fledged system of social indicators. In fact, it is one of the first country applications, both conceptually and empirically, of the OECD version. 34. A more recent attempt in the Philippines to measure develop-
analysis: The text discusses the concept of "social concern" and its relation to human well-being, mentioning various areas such as health, individual development, and social opportunity. It also references the OECD and its framework for social indicators, as well as country-specific applications in Japan and the Philippines. This suggests that the text is focused on social development and well-being, rather than economic or environmental issues.