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Heinz-Herbert Noll 《Social indicators research》2011,102(1):111-116
The recently published report by the “Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress” is being
discussed and commented from the point of view of social indicators research, which addresses issues of the measurement of
well-being and social progress since the 1960s. Some of the recommendations made by the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi—Report thus
seem to be well known and all but new and innovative from a social indicators perspective. It is also argued that the report
ignores some of the available approaches, instruments and ongoing activities to measure and monitor well-being and the quality
of life, which go well beyond GDP, such as e.g. social reports. The Commission’s report is nevertheless considered a major
step forward towards a considerably improved measurement of well-being and social progress. 相似文献
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The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships among housing satisfaction, community attachment and community
satisfaction and the complex mechanisms involved in predicting community satisfaction among residents in rural communities.
The role of housing satisfaction and community attachment in predicting community satisfaction was of particular interest.
A structural equation model of community satisfaction was tested with mail survey data drawn from a randomly selected rural
sample of 974 households. The results of this study confirmed the influences and mediating role of community attachment and
housing satisfaction in predicting community satisfaction. “Spillover” effects from “lower levels of life concerns” (e.g.,
satisfaction with local services, assessment of current housing conditions) in perceived community satisfaction were found
that support previous research (Sirgy and Cornwell in Social Indicators Research 59:79–114, 2002). 相似文献
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The aim of the current study was to examine the role of satisfaction-with-event as a mediator in the relations between flow
and life satisfaction based on the bottom-up theory (Andrews and Withey in Social indicators of well-being: Americans’ perceptions
of life quality. Plenum, New York, 1976; Lee et al. in J Macromarketing 22(2): 158–169, 2002). Four hundred and thirty-four participants with a mean age of 35.60 (SD = 11.76) were recruited from the audience of a “Cirque
du Soleil” acrobatics show, performed in Taiwan in 2009. Participants completed the flow scale (Csikszentmihalyi in Flow:
the psychology of optimal experience. Harper & Row, New York, 1990), a satisfaction-with-event scale (Lin and Hsu in Mark Rev 3(4): 497–528, 2008), and a satisfaction-with-life scale (Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985) immediately after viewing the show. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine our hypothesis that satisfaction-with-event
levels would fully mediate the relationship between flow and overall life satisfaction. Results supported our prediction and
are discussed in terms of bottom-up theory. Implications of the study are also provided for the leisure managers. 相似文献
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Social capital has often been invoked to explain differences in children’s well-being by family structure. That is, developmental
outcome for children in lone or step parent family is not at par with that of children from intact family because parental
investments on children may be lower not only in financial and human capital but also in social capital. This proposition
has been difficult to examine in greater depth because of lack of conceptual clarity and of data to measure social capital.
Using a definition of social capital as the “ability to secure benefits through membership in networks and other social structures”,
we focus on the impact of family structures on social capital engendered by three types of networks: (a) informal ties with kin, families, friends, neighbours, and workmates; (b) generalized relationships with local people, people in civic groups, and people in general; and, (c) relationships through institutions. In particular, we examine differences in the measures of social capital among women living with no children in various marital
arrangements, and women living with children in intact, step, and lone parent families. Data from the Canadian 2003 General Social Survey on Social Engagement confirm that social capital is indeed greater in intact families than in lone
parent families. Mothers in intact families (especially married mothers) have larger informal networks, are members of more
primordial and purposive organizations, have greater trust in people in the family, in the neighbourhood, and in people in
general, and have greater confidence in government or business institutions. In general, social capital of mothers in step
families is in between that of married mothers in intact families and lone mothers. Thus, the assumption in the literature
that family structure can serve as a proxy for social capital may be justified. However, this study contributes a unique way
of measuring social capital in terms of networks if and when data are available and a way of investigating the relationship
between family structure and social capital; that is, the former as a determinant of the latter. 相似文献
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This article presents the estimation of a synthetic economic wellbeing index using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The DEA
is a multidimensional technique that has its origins in efficiency analysis, but its usage within the social indicators context
is particularly appropriate. It allows the researcher to take advantage of the inherent flexibility of DEA when assigning
weights to the factors. The model itself carries out the aggregation and weighting of 8 partial indicators, which attempt
to describe the four components of economic wellbeing suggested by Osberg (Royal Commision on the Economic Union and Development
Prospects for Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985)), in order to assess the economic wellbeing of the 50 Spanish provinces.
By using the index obtained in the analysis a “ranking” of the provinces is obtained. This ranking proves to be relatively
similar to the one that corresponds to per capita income, although there are significant differences. 相似文献
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Theorizing indicators 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Ivar Frønes 《Social indicators research》2007,83(1):5-23
Policymakers and social theorists have increasingly come to rely on social indicators to guide their decisions and theories.
Social indicators are also useful in bridging theory and empirical research as well as the traditional gap between policymaking
and social theory. The concept of social indicators covers interpretation of cultural signs, simple statistical measures,
and complex statistical indexes related to sets of domains. The article views the development of child well-being indicators
as central not only in the social welfare field, but as an indicator of future societal conditions, given that children’s
lives are especially sensitive to social change. The paper addresses the development of indicators of children’s well-being,
arguing that the expansion of the field, the complexity of new domains and indicators, and the position of children as “being”
and “becoming”, they are citizens of the present as well as being socialized for the future, illustrates that the next crucial
step for the field is to further elaborate theories and models. 相似文献
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The changes concerning the household’s structure have contributed to the coming out of new households’ forms: in particular
the “mobile” household is a type very interesting, because of dimensions that the family commuting is achieving in Italy.
The Multipurpose survey on “Households, Social subjects and Childhood condition” carried out in June 1998, has allowed for
the first time to collect useful information to describe not only the forms that this phenomenon has in Italy but also those
subjects being more frequently involved by it. 相似文献
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Amal Kanti Ray 《Social indicators research》2008,86(1):1-46
PQLI and HDI are the two most popular measures of development, besides per capita income. Over the years, PQLI appears to
be not much in use for regional comparisons, especially after the introduction of HDI. While PQLI considers only the physical
variables—adult literacy, life expectancy at birth and infant survival rate, HDI has life expectancy at birth, educational
attainment and real GDP per capita (PPP$). PQLI and HDI are similar, the main difference between the two being the inclusion
of income in HDI and exclusion of the same from PQLI. In a sense, HDI represents both physical and financial attributes of
development and PQLI has only the physical aspects of life. The present author took the lines of PQLI to express development
in terms of physical variables and considering development as a multidimensional phenomenon, Ray (1989) [Ray, A. K. (1989). On the measurement of certain aspects of social development, Social Indicators Research (Vol. 21, pp. 35–92). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.] included as many as 13 physical variables to represent
social development across 40 countries; no financial variable was included in the construction of composite index, termed
as the Social Development Index, SDI. Incidentally, like PQLI, SDI was introduced before HDI. Unlike PQLI and HDI, SDI considers
(i) a large number of indicators representing various concern areas and (ii) a set of objective methods for combining the
development indicators as a composite index. Ray (1989) has been restated and updated in this article with newer cross-country information. In the present study, SDI has been constructed
for over 102 countries, including 21 OECD countries, using 10 development indicators, instead of 13 indicators in the past.
Apart from presenting objective methods for combining indicators into SDI, the present study asserts that SDI works better
than HDI as a measure of development for an international comparison.
The views expressed in the article are those of the author and not of the institution he serves. 相似文献
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Child poverty has been widely discussed in Germany since the publication of the third official Poverty and Wealth Report of
the German government in 2008 which—inter alia—focused on the situation of children and families. However, child poverty is
not only caused by low household incomes and impacts of child poverty are not only restricted to financial consequences. The
capability approach takes into account this multidimensionality of well-being and poverty of children. It conceptualizes human
well-being as not only depending on financial means but also gives the same importance to the personal and social conversion
factors which determine how far financial means can be converted into personal well-being. Before 2008 the capability approach
had only been applied to the well-being of adults in Germany, but not specifically to the well-being of children. However,
there are several reasons why a capability analysis for children will differ from a capability analysis for adults. Adults’
capability sets comprise dimensions that are less relevant for small children while other valuable capabilities have to be
added. Furthermore the capability set depends to a large extent on the age of the child. The paper focuses on a multidimensional
poverty analysis in the capability perspective of 5–6 years old children. In the domains of “Education/Leisure”, “Health”,
“Social Participation” and “Income” child poverty is measured by predefined indicators. The relationship to the social and
personal conversion factors of the caretakers is then evaluated. Additionally, a multidimensional poverty measure is analyzed. 相似文献
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The theory that marriage has protective effects for survival has itself lived for more than 100 years since Durkheim’s groundbreaking
study of suicide (Durkheim 1951 [1897]). Investigations of differences in this protective effect by gender, by age, and in contrast to different unmarried statuses,
however, have yielded inconsistent conclusions. These investigations typically either use data in which marital status and
other covariates are observed in cross-sectional surveys up to 10 years before mortality exposure, or use data from panel
surveys with much smaller sample sizes. Their conclusions are usually not based on formal statistical tests of contrasts between
men and women or between never-married, divorced/separated, and widowed statuses. Using large-scale pooled panel survey data
linked to death registrations and earnings histories for U.S. men and women aged 25 and older, and with appropriate contrast
tests, we find a consistent survival advantage for married over unmarried men and women, and an additional survival “premium”
for married men. We find little evidence of mortality differences between never-married, divorced/separated, and widowed statuses. 相似文献
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In the Human Development Index (HDI), life expectancy is the only indicator used in modeling the dimension ‘a long and healthy
life’. Whereas life expectancy is a direct measure of quantity of life, it is only an indirect measure of healthy years lived.
In this paper we attempt to remedy this omission by introducing into the HDI the morbidity indicator, “expected lost healthy
years” (LHE), used in the World Health Report Though LHE is only weakly correlated with life expectancy and displays considerable
variation across countries, the ranking of nations using the adjusted HDI is very similar to that from the HDI. Nevertheless,
there are some outlier countries (including large countries like China and the United States) that experience notable changes
in rank. Given the considerable variation in the morbidity data across gender, we also adjust the Gender-related Development
Index (GDI) in a similar fashion. The ranking using the adjusted GDI is very similar to that from the GDI, but it has a lower
rank correlation with the HDI. 相似文献
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There is an increasing support from international organizations and the research community for stepping beyond infant or child
mortality as the most common child level social indicator and progressing towards an international measure of child development.
The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a teacher-completed measure of children’s developmental health at school entry,
which to date has been used in more than a dozen countries. The EDI includes five developmental domains (Physical Health and
Well-being, Social Competence, Emotional Maturity, Language and Cognitive Development and Communication Skills and General
Knowledge) and 16 subdomains. This paper examines the EDI’s psychometric properties in four English-speaking countries (Canada,
Australia, United States and Jamaica) by evaluating both the internal consistency and factor structures, as well as exploring
the association between the EDI’s Language and Cognitive Development Domain and a direct assessment of children’s receptive
vocabulary (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, PPVT). Overall, the factor loadings and internal consistencies of domains and
subdomains were similar across the countries. The comparisons of the Language and Cognitive Development Domain with the PPVT
showed high specificity and low sensitivity. The results of this paper indicate that the EDI, a measure of children’s developmental
status at school entry, demonstrates similar psychometric properties in a number of countries, thus building the evidence
for the instrument to be added to the limited array of internationally comparable child social indicators. 相似文献
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Maria Fatima Ruiz Paiva Félix Neto María Teresa Muñoz Sastre Nadine Laumond-Salvatore Sheila Rivière Etienne Mullet 《Social indicators research》2009,94(1):173-181
The study was aimed at replicating on a Portuguese sample the seven-factor model of life appraisal (physical autonomy, love
life, family life, social life, occupational life, finances, and leisure life) that was suggested by Salvatore and Munoz Sastre
Social Indicators Research 53:229–255 (2001). A sample of 1,111 Portuguese participants, aged 17–85, was presented with the Appraisal of Life Questionnaire. The “domain” model of life appraisal satisfactorily accounted for the data gathered on the Portuguese sample. Regarding
finances and occupational life, Portuguese scores were lower than French scores. Regarding the occupational score and the
leisure score, a clear linear decrease as a function of age was evidenced in the Portuguese sample. Finally, regarding the
family score and the financial score, a non-linear relationship with age was found. An increase was observed from young adult
age to adult age, and a decrease was observed from adult age to older age. A strong decrease in the physical autonomy scores
among Portuguese females was also observed. 相似文献
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The measurement of development or poverty as multidimensional phenomena is very difficult because there are several theoretical,
methodological and empirical problems involved. The literature of composite indicators offers a wide variety of aggregation
methods, all with their pros and cons. In this paper, we propose a new, alternative composite index denoted as MPI (Mazziotta-Pareto
Index) which, starting from a linear aggregation, introduces penalties for the countries or geographical areas with ‘unbalanced’
values of the indicators. As an example of application of the MPI, we consider a set of indicators in order to measure the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we present a comparison between HDI (Human Development Index) methodology, HPI (Human
Poverty Index) methodology and MPI. 相似文献
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Olivia Patterson Frederick Weil Kavita Patel 《Population research and policy review》2010,29(2):127-141
We focus on the role that community plays in the continuum of disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and we explore
where community fits in conceptual frameworks concerning disaster decision-making. We offer an overview of models developed
in the literature as well as insights drawn from research related to Hurricane Katrina. Each model illustrates some aspect
of the spectrum of disaster preparedness and recovery, beginning with risk perception and vulnerability assessments, and proceeding
to notions of resiliency and capacity building. Concepts like social resilience are related to theories of “social capital,”
which stress the importance of social networks, reciprocity, and interpersonal trust. These allow individuals and groups to
accomplish greater things than they could by their isolated efforts. We trace two contrasting notions of community to Tocqueville.
On the one hand, community is simply an aggregation of individual persons, that is, a population. As individuals, they have
only limited capacity to act effectively or make decisions for themselves, and they are strongly subject to administrative
decisions that authorities impose on them. On the other hand, community is an autonomous actor, with its own interests, preferences,
resources, and capabilities. This definition of community has also been embraced by community-based participatory researchers
and has been thought to offer an approach that is more active and advocacy oriented. We conclude with a discussion of the
strengths and weaknesses of community in disaster response and in disaster research. 相似文献
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Despina Moraitou Chrysa Kolovou Chrysa Papasozomenou Catherine Paschoula 《Social indicators research》2006,76(1):71-93
This study examined the relationship between hope as disposition, adaptation to old age, and individual-demographic factors.
One hundred and fifty older adults, aged 60–93 years old, completed the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale developed by Snyder
et al. [1991, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, pp. 570–585], and the Adaptation to Old Age Questionnaire
developed by Efklides et al. [2003, European Psychologist, 8, pp. 178–191]. Factor analyses revealed 2 factors for hope, “Pathways
Thought” and “Agency Thinking”, and 4 factors for adaptation to old age, “Health Comparison”, “General Adaptation/Self-Efficacy”,
“Self-Control”, and “Generativity”. Regression analyses showed that hope as pathways thought predicted all factors of adaptation,
whereas hope as agency thinking predicted only “General Adaptation/Self-Efficacy” and “Self-Control”. There were also some
effects of gender, education, marital status, place of residence, and health status on specific aspects of adaptation to old
age. 相似文献
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There is an ambiguity in Amartya Sen’s capability approach as to what constitutes an individual’s resources, conversion factors
and valuable functionings. What we here call the “circularity problem” points to the fact that all three concepts seem to
be mutually endogenous and interdependent. To econometrically account for this entanglement we suggest a panel vector autoregression
approach. We analyze the intertemporal interplay of the above factors over a time horizon of 15 years using the BHPS data
set for Great Britain, measuring individual well-being in functionings space with a set of basic functionings, comprising
“being happy”, “being healthy”, “being nourished”, “moving about freely”, “being well-sheltered” and “having satisfying social
relations”. We find that there are indeed functionings that are resources for many other functionings (viz. “being happy”)
while other functionings (“being well-sheltered” and “having satisfying social relations”) are by and large independent, thus
shedding light on a facet of the capability approach that has been neglected so far. 相似文献
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To address declining response rates and rising data-collection costs, survey methodologists have devised new techniques for
using process data (“paradata”) to address nonresponse by altering the survey design dynamically during data collection. We
investigate the substantive consequences of responsive survey design—tools that use paradata to improve the representative
qualities of surveys and control costs. By improving representation of reluctant respondents, responsive design can change
our understanding of the topic being studied. Using the National Survey of Family Growth Cycle 6, we illustrate how responsive
survey design can shape both demographic estimates and models of demographic behaviors based on survey data. By juxtaposing
measures from regular and responsive data collection phases, we document how special efforts to interview reluctant respondents
may affect demographic estimates. Results demonstrate the potential of responsive survey design to change the quality of demographic
research based on survey data. 相似文献
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Andy Sharma 《Population research and policy review》2011,30(6):817-838
I test if selective out-migration of unhealthy seniors explains why disability rates are so much lower for Florida, as compared
to the national average. This particular area of research is timely given the significant demographic changes relating to
aging. Moreover, this study contributes to the body of literature examining migration with respect to disability and widowhood.
Using State Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) and Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA), I create national maps showing
disability rates for the following age-groups: 50–59, 60–69, and 70+. After creating maps in ARCGIS and conducting univariate
and clustering analysis on mobility disability and personal care limitation, I employ multinomial logit (MNL) analysis to
test if individuals with disability are more likely to out-migrate from Florida. The regression analyses lend support to the
relaxed Litwak and Longino (The Gerontologist, 27(3): 266–272, 1987) second-move hypothesis, which claims individuals with progressively worse health are more likely to undertake another move
to be closer to family and friends. I state “relaxed” because the data does not allow one to determine the reason for migration—only
that migration occurred during the past year. This research informs policy-makers to recognize that elderly in better health
may migrate to places such as Arizona and Florida due to amenity-seeking behavior, but unhealthy elderly are more likely to
leave these states due to assistance-seeking behavior. This out-migration can place excess demand on health services for the
incoming regions, which requires state and local government to ensure resources are in place. Also noteworthy, my results
are less likely to be flawed by erroneous age and sex data in the public use microdata samples (IPUMS) since I stack the 2006
and 2007 American Community Survey (ACS). A recent working studies by Alexander et al. (Inaccurate age and sex data in the
Census PUMS files: Evidence and implications. Munich: CESifo, 2010) shows inaccuracies in the IPUMS for the 1 and 5% 2000 Census, the 2003–2006 ACS, the 2005–2007 3-year ACS, and the 2004–2009
current population survey (CPS) files. 相似文献
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Carl Fredrickson Tim B. Heaton Glenn V. Fuguitt James J. Zuiches 《Population and environment》1980,3(3-4):280-297
The congruence of stated residential preferences and observed migration behavior suggests that preferences may be important in the migration decision-making process. Using data from the March 1974 NORC Amalgam Survey, this analysis incorporates a measure of residential preference into a model of migration intentions similar to that developed by Speare (1974) for residential movement. Our results indicate that preferences and community satisfaction are interrelated and each has an independent effect on migration. We also find that the decision to migrate may be more directly influenced by ties to the community than is a residential move. Thus home ownership, age, and length of residence directly affect migration plans net of preferences and satisfaction, whereas only home ownership directly influenced the decision to move residentially in Speare's (1974) analysis.This research has been supported by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (Journal Article #10,961), and by the Economic Development Division, Economic Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture through a cooperative agreement with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additional support was provided by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, the College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University, and by the Center for the Study of Metropolitan Problems, NIMH. Computer analysis was aided by a "Center for Population Research" grant, No. HDO5876, to the Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, from the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. We wish to thank Dennis Hogan and Joel Nelson for comments on an earlier draft of this paper. James Zuiches is currently on leave from Michigan State University. 相似文献