While a substantial body of literature has been built on rural well‐being, due to the great heterogeneity of rural territories, the literature is highly fragmented, even contradictory. Moreover, no systematic review of the entire domain exists to guide rural decision‐makers. Debated conceptualization, contradicting results, and pressing policy requirements make it timely to deliver a systematized state‐of‐the‐art on rural well‐being to anchor public policies in the rural development domain. By systematically reviewing the scholarly literature on rural well‐being and all documents developed by government and private entities that academia highlighted as relevant to this subject, the study provides a bibliometric and thematic analysis of the domain without a time limit. Thirty‐three rural well‐being dimensions and over 9,000 indicators within these dimensions have been identified, their interconnections established and their relevance to international development goals highlighted. The study presents the structure and content of this indicator database and provides suggestions for rural researchers and policymakers on how to use it to build their own well‐being framework. It also provides an overview of each rural well‐being dimension by discussing the key theories, the main inconsistencies, the most relevant studies and authors, the fundamental measurement frameworks, and the indicators used.

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什么是农村福祉以及如何衡量它？尝试秩序混乱*

虽然大量文献都是以农村福祉为基础的，但由于农村地区的巨大异质性，这些文献高度碎片化，甚至相互矛盾。此外，不存在对整个领域的系统审查来指导农村决策者。有争议的概念、相互矛盾的结果和紧迫的政策要求，使得及时提供有关农村福祉的系统化最新成果，以将公共政策纳入农村发展领域。通过系统回顾有关农村福祉的学术文献以及学术界强调与该主题相关的政府和私人实体制定的所有文件，该研究提供了对该领域的无时间限制的文献计量和主题分析。已确定了 33 个农村福祉维度和这些维度内的 9,000 多个指标，建立了它们之间的相互联系，并强调了它们与国际发展目标的相关性。该研究介绍了该指标数据库的结构和内容，并为农村研究人员和政策制定者如何利用它建立自己的福祉框架提供建议。它还通过讨论关键理论、主要矛盾、最相关的研究和作者、基本测量框架和使用的指标，概述了每个农村福祉维度。