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Esfandiar Zebardast 《Social indicators research》2009,90(2):307-324
The aim of this article is to survey the spontaneous settlements on the Tehran Metropolitan Fringe (TMF), to determine the
different housing sub-domains of quality of life (QOL), to survey overall life satisfaction and to determine the extent to
which overall life satisfaction is explained by the components of the housing domain of QOL in these spontaneous settlements.
Three spontaneous settlements on the TMF were selected by stratified random sampling method. Household interviews were conducted
to gather the needed data. Nineteen indicators were selected to reflect the housing sub-domains of QOL. A factor analysis
identified seven housing sub-domains of QOL: housing consolidation, housing amenities, housing space, housing quality, housing
basic services, housing durability and security of tenure. In all three settlements surveyed, an inverse relationship was
found between satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Very few residents expressed a neutral view about life satisfaction in the
settlements surveyed. In all three settlements surveyed, respondents felt they were more satisfied with their life in their
previous settlements. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the extent to which overall life satisfaction
is explained by the seven extracted components of the housing domain of QOL. The results indicated that there is a direct
relationship between the main reasons for migration to these settlements and the housing sub-domains of QOL.
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Esfandiar ZebardastEmail: |
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Landlords and realtors occasionally are identified as causal agents in the creation or maintenance of segregated neighborhoods.
The existence of racial/ethnic separation at local scales, however, is no sure proof of illegal discriminatory acts or intentions
by housing market agents. Other factors can and do produce racial/ethnic separation within neighborhoods. Applied demographic
analysis can play a part in clarifying what constitutes discrimination and in evaluating the statistical data used to screen
for unlawful acts of discrimination within local housing markets. We report a study of tenancy and tenancy turnover in a group
of apartment buildings located in a densely settled and ethnically diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles. Turnover in these
buildings altered the ethnic mix of tenants, increasing the Asian proportion and decreasing the Hispanic proportion. We trace
this change to two market processes that differentiate tenants economically and by differing preferences for luxurious housing:
(1) an upgrading of housing stock, which repositioned certain rental units at a higher price point; and (2) the market response
to newly-available luxury units. These processes promote ethnically homogeneous apartment-building “neighborhoods” within
an otherwise unsegregated ethnically diverse area.
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William A. V. ClarkEmail: |
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Jad M. Chaaban 《Social indicators research》2009,93(2):351-358
This paper develops an empirical methodology for the construction of a synthetic multi-dimensional cross-country comparison
of the performance of governments around the world in improving the livelihood of their younger population. The devised ‘Youth
Welfare Index’ is based on the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and allows for cross-country benchmarking
and comparison over time. The value added of the youth index is to produce country-specific rankings and trace performance
evolution with respect to indicators solely centered on youth, unlike other development indicators like the Human Development
Index (HDI) which bundles many social and development indicators.
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Jad M. ChaabanEmail: |
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Nathanael T. Lauster 《Population research and policy review》2006,25(4):329-351
Familistic and individualistic theories both provide explanations for recent declines in family household formation. Securing access to housing plays a key role in new household formation for both these theories. Familistic theories hypothesize a positive relationship between access to housing and new family household formation. Individualistic theories hypothesize a positive relationship between access to housing and nonfamily household formation. Here I test these hypotheses in Sweden by modeling leaving home for family and nonfamily household formation using the Swedish Family Survey and supplemental housing data. I find significant support for the familistic notion that greater access to housing increases the likelihood of family household formation. I fail to find support for the individualistic theory.
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Nathanael T. LausterEmail: Phone: +1-765-655-9169 |
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Cohort Succession in the US Housing Market: New Houses, the Baby Boom, and Income Stratification 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Rachel E. Dwyer 《Population research and policy review》2008,27(2):161-181
Federal housing policy in the US across the postwar period supported the construction of new houses more than public provision
or renovation of older structures as a means of ensuring a sufficient supply of quality dwellings. Understanding trends in
new housing in particular is thus crucial to understanding the housing regime. Following Myers (Housing demography: Linking demographic structure and housing markets. University of Wisconsin Press, 1990; Housing Studies, 14, 473–490,1999), this paper conceptualizes historical change in the housing stock within a demographic framework as the movement
of cohorts of households through cohorts of housing stock. Recent evidence suggests that a new cohort of houses arose in the
1980s and 1990s (larger with more amenities than past vintages), and that buyers of those new houses were increasingly affluent.
In this paper, I link the succession to a new cohort of houses to household cohort succession and examine the increasing affluence
of new house buyers by age and cohort, focusing especially on the entry of the Baby Boom generation exactly when the new cohort
of houses arrived. I use US Census microdata for 1960–2000 to develop a cohort longitudinal dataset, and analyze historical
change in stratification in new house ownership. I find significant shifts between cohorts in income inequality among new
house buyers, with implications for the capacity of the housing regime to meet the future needs of an increasingly diverse
population.
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Rachel E. DwyerEmail: |
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The relevance of social interactions on housing satisfaction 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
For most individuals, housing is the largest consumption and investment item of their lifetime and, as a result, housing satisfaction
is an important component of their quality of life. The purpose of this paper then is to investigate the determinants of individual
housing satisfaction as a particular domain of satisfaction with life as a whole, examining the effects of individual and
household attributes (predictive), housing characteristics (hedonic), and more importantly, of social interactions originated
in one's residential neighbourhood. To do so, we model housing as a composite commodity that satisfies dwelling needs, as
well as other intangibles such as familiar relationships and socio-status aspects. We use the Survey of Living Conditions
and Poverty (Spain). Specifically, using a self-reported measure of housing satisfaction, we estimate ordered probit models
searching for the empirical specification that provides the best fit accounting for divergences driven by aspirations defined
in the own household (internal norm), and by social comparisons (peer-effect or external norm).
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Esperanza Vera-ToscanoEmail: |
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Testing the validity of indicator systems is a task almost always left to the scientific community, in standard practice and
in keeping with the quest for objectivity prevalent in politics and in society as a whole. This paper calls for a reinvigorated
agenda within indicators research to question this practice and develop alternative methodologies to test the validity, legitimacy
and impacts of indicator systems. The assumptions of objectivity are not realistic in contemporary policy contexts. As a result,
the scientific community is not the only community with a stake in assessing an indicator system; it is perhaps not even the
most important one. Four other community types with distinct interests in the design, use and impacts of indicator systems
are identified. First is the community of elected officials, whose positions of power make their perspective important and
unique; second is the community of engaged publics, whose stake is made clear by the principles of participatory and deliberative
democracy; third are communities of cultural difference; and fourth are professional communities. The unique relationship
each of these communities has with indicator systems, and thus the tests and challenges offered by each to the practice of
indicators, is discussed through a case study of a public participation process for the development of a new set of regional
sustainability indicators in Vancouver, Canada. The evidence suggests new research questions for scholars in policy and indicators
studies who seek to better understand paths and barriers to implementation and impact in indicators practice, as well as lessons
for other local indicators practices.
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Meg HoldenEmail: |
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There are obvious reasons why residential construction should depend on the population’s age structure. We estimate this relation
on Swedish time series data and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development panel data. Large groups of young adults
are associated with higher rates of residential construction, but there is also a significant negative effect from those above
75. Age effects on residential investment are robust and forecast well out-of-sample in contrast to the corresponding house
price results. This may explain why the debate around house prices and demography has been rather inconclusive. Rapidly aging
populations in the industrialized world makes the future look bleak for the construction industry.
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Bo MalmbergEmail: |
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Kristin Anderson Moore Sharon Vandivere Laura Lippman Cameron McPhee Margot Bloch 《Social indicators research》2007,84(3):291-331
This paper uses recent data on U.S. children from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF) to create indices that
tally the number of problems or risks that individual children experience. We compare results with those from indices developed
elsewhere that assess the change across sets of population-level indicators. While the two types of indices show similar trends
over time, specific changes, as well as trends, depend on the specific domain of well-being or context examined, highlighting
the importance of the distinction between well-being and context. Children with problems in multiple domains tend to be socio-economically
and demographically disadvantaged compared with other children. We preface this work by providing an overview of the history
of child well-being indicators and distinguish indices of child well-being from indices of the condition of children.
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Laura LippmanEmail: |
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Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has experienced extensive economic, social and political reforms. The economic impact of
these changes has been closely monitored and much commented upon. However, the social impacts of the reforms on different
family types are less well understood. This paper outlines a project designed to monitor how the reforms impacted upon specific
family types via the use of indicators of family wellbeing constructed from census data. These indicators show that for a
range of family types, the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s varied in their impact, with single-parent families faring worst.
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Gerard CotterellEmail: |
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The purpose of this paper is to use socioeconomic indicators for analyzing convergence within Greece at regional (NUTS II)
and prefecture levels (NUTS III) since 1960. We use two alternative approaches. The first one is based on the coefficient
of variation and the second one on quality of life rankings. We confirm the decline of regional inequalities in Greece, with
the exclusion of the 1980s. Regions with increased tourist and trade activity are also regions with high quality of life.
Border regions are usually the laggards of social and economic development.
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Georgios FotopoulosEmail: |
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Pavle Sicherl 《Social indicators research》2007,84(2):231-247
The perceptions on well-being and societal progress are influenced also by the quantitative indicators and measures used in
the measurement, presentation and semantics of discussing these issues. The article presents a novel generic statistical measure
S-time-distance, with clear interpretability that delivers a broader concept to look at data, to understand and compare situations.
This methodology can provide a new insight to many problems, an additional statistical measure, and a presentation tool for
policy analysis and debate expressed in time units, readily understood by policy makers, media and general public. The benefits
of this new view in comparisons, competitiveness issues, benchmarking, target setting and monitoring for economic, employment,
social, R&D and environment indicators at the world, OECD, EU, country, regional, city, sector, socio-economic groups, company,
project, household and individual levels could be immediately applied to a wide variety of substantive fields at macro and
micro levels using existing data and indicator systems from international, national, state, city and local sources. These
suggestions are illustrated by comparisons between EU15 and USA.
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Pavle SicherlEmail: |
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Pei-shan Liao 《Social indicators research》2009,91(1):99-114
This study explores the consistency between objective indicators and subjective perceptions of quality of life in a ranking
of survey data for cities and counties in Taiwan. Data used for analysis included the Statistical Yearbook of Hsiens and Municipalities
and the Survey on Living Conditions of Citizens in Taiwan, both given for the year 2000. The Quality of life was examined
in seven domains: medical services, domestic finances, work, education, leisure, public safety, and environmental quality.
Subjective and objective rankings for each domain of quality of life for 23 areas (some areas are cities and some are counties)
are compared. Analysis by means of nonparametric correlation coefficients indicates that there is no significant correlation
between objective indicators and subjective perceptions, except in Education and Environmental Quality. Objective indicators
of Environmental Quality (air pollution and garbage) are positively correlated with subjective satisfaction with residential
environment. But inexplicably, higher levels of literacy and educational achievement are negatively correlated with satisfaction
with the educational system. It may be considered that disparity in either average objective conditions or in average subjective
perceptions may not adequately depict quality of life differences.
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Pei-shan LiaoEmail: |
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Gregory Ponthiere 《Social indicators research》2007,84(2):203-230
Whereas period life expectancy constitutes an intuitive indicator of the survival conditions prevailing at a particular period,
this paper argues that, given the existence of welfare interdependencies, that widespread indicator is nonetheless an incomplete
measure of the longevity achievements relevant for human well-being. The central importance of coexistence for human-beings
implies that usual life expectancy measures should be complemented by joint life expectancy indicators, which measure the
average coexistence time under particular survival conditions. After a study of the theoretical foundations of ‘single’ and
‘joint’ life expectancy indicators, it is shown that joint life expectancy measures tend to enrich significantly the comparison
of longevity achievements across countries and periods. Moreover, the introduction of joint life expectancy indicators—as
a complement to conventional life expectancy measures—into multi-variable indexes such as the United Nations’ HDI is also
shown to affect international rankings of standards of living to a non negligible extent.
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Gregory PonthiereEmail: |
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Education,Human Development and Quality of Life: Measurement Issues and Implications for India 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
M. R. Narayana 《Social indicators research》2009,90(2):279-293
This paper analyses and compares the measurement of indicators and variables in the construction of education index in Human
Development Index (HDI) at the global, national and 18 sub-national human development reports in India since 1990. The results
show non-comparability of measurement of the education indicators and variables. This implies that vertical and horizontal
comparability of HDI may not be plausible for India. Implications of these analyses are highlighted for measurement of quality
of life indices with special reference to physical quality of life index. Policy lessons are derived for future measurement
of education index for India in particular, and other developing countries in general.
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M. R. NarayanaEmail: |
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This article defines Active Citizenship within a European context as a broad range of value based participation. It develops
a framework for measuring this phenomenon which combines the four dimensions of Protest and Social Change, Community Life,
Representative Democracy and Democratic values. The European Social Survey 2002 is used to populate the framework as this
survey provided the best data coverage available and covered 19 European Countries. In total 61 indicators were selected.
A composite indicator (CI), The Active Citizenship Composite Indicator (ACCI), is built using the framework provided and using
experts’ weights. In addition, the robustness of the results is tested using sensitivity analysis. The limitations to the
ACCI are explained in terms of the limitation of the data availability in particular concerning the new forms of participation
and less organised forms of participation. Nevertheless, ACCI proved to be statistically robust and reliable and proved to
be a useful tool for monitoring levels of citizenship in Europe. The results of ACCI exhibit interesting and quite distinct
regional patterns. The results showed that the Nordic countries, and in particular Sweden, have the highest rate of Active
Citizenship, followed by Central Europe and Anglo-Saxon countries. Mediterranean countries are next followed by Eastern European
countries that close the ranking.
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Massimiliano MascheriniEmail: |
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We propose a method for computing indicators of the relative success of local authorities at integrating new immigrants in
the labour market, taking account of differences in characteristics of immigrants and local labour markets. The indicator
for integration success is based on mean duration from date of residence permit to start of an employment spell. We apply
this method to a Danish administrative dataset. Correcting for differences in immigrant characteristics and local labour market
conditions has an important impact on the estimated ranking of local authorities. We investigate how robust the ranking is
with respect to changes in the specification of criteria for integration success and controls.
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Eskil HeinesenEmail: |
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This study presents a synthetic indicator for quality assessment in the Spanish public university system. The indicator is
based on a series of components and simple indicators that were obtained from the public universities’ financial planning
estimates. The paper takes a quantitative, wide-ranging approach to analyse the quality of university institutions and is
intended to be complimentary to other qualitative approaches. Data Envelopment Analysis was used in order to facilitate the
aggregation and weighting of the data used to construct the synthetic indicator. This technique allows the analyst to endogenously
determine the weighting of the partial indicators while respecting the peculiarities intrinsic to each university. The results
reveal that there are significant differences among Spanish public universities. In addition to how relatively well each of
the institutions performs, other factors would seem to be influencing the results; essentially these are related to socio-economic
factors and to the application of university policy in Spain over recent decades.
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Pilar MuriasEmail: |
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Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: Towards an Internationally Acceptable National Success Indicator 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Yew-Kwang Ng 《Social indicators research》2008,85(3):425-446
Amidst increasing attention to happiness studies by economists, the New Economics Foundation launched in July 2006 the Happy
Planet Index (Marks et al. 2006). This is the ratio of the average happy life years (HLY) to the per capita ecological footprint of the country concerned.
HLY is in turn the product of the average happiness (or life satisfaction) index and the life expectancy index. Some essential
revisions to this index are proposed to reach an internationally acceptable national success indicator that aims positively
at long and happy lives but negatively at the external costs of environmental disruption. Hopefully, this ‘environmentally
responsible happy nation index’ will lead to some re-orientation of both the market and national governments towards something
more fundamentally valuable.
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Yew-Kwang NgEmail: |