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Most research on the non-economic quality of life have been (a) on a national level or performed on cross-country comparisons,
and/or (b) used subjective indicators to measure how people perceive their non-economic quality of life. In this paper, our
main contribution is to construct objective indicators of the non-economic quality of life for 354 sub-national magisterial
districts in South Africa. We also compare changes in these indicators over time, and consider methodological issues in the
construction of objective indicators of non-economic quality of life. We find that although income does matter for the overall
quality of life, non-income components of the quality of life can make an important difference. We find a number of places
with low incomes that have been able to achieve higher than expected outcomes in terms of the non-economic quality of life,
and that some of the relative income poor areas have improved their non-economic ranking between 1996 and 2004. We also find
that the geographical/environmental quality of life in South Africa is better in non-urban areas, where fewer of the country’s
population is residing. Significant improvements in the overall quality of life may be achieved through improvements in the
urban natural environment.
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Wim NaudéEmail: |
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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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Sustainable Housing in the Urban Context: International Sustainable Development Indicator Sets and Housing 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Housing, an essential aspect of quality of life, is also significant for sustainable development (SD). All of the major international
statements on SD refer to housing or settlement strategies. However, indicator sets derived from these statements often fail
to include good indicators of sustainable housing. This article outlines the conceptualisation of SD and housing from the
international statements. It proceeds by describing the international indicator sets which have been constructed based on
these policy statements. International organisations such as the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD),
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) have all produced indicator
sets. However, this article contends that housing is an underdeveloped indicator and calls for more attention to be paid to
the importance of aspects of housing for SD and the measurement of progress towards it via social indicators.
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Montserrat Pareja EastawayEmail: |
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Nazeem Muhajarine Ronald Labonte Allison Williams James Randall 《Social indicators research》2008,85(1):53-80
Interest in understanding how characteristics associated with where people live, in addition to the characteristics of the
people themselves, affect health outcomes has risen sharply in recent years. While much of the research examining this question
focus on teasing apart effects of place and individual on outcomes, less attention has been paid to examining how individuals’
perceptions of where they live may provide some clues to better understanding the influence of place on outcomes. We present
findings from analysis undertaken that incorporate the subjective responses of individuals, residing in three socially contrasting
neighbourhoods, to their local environment. Our first question addressed whether perceptions related to neighbourhood and
city of residence matter to self rated health and quality of life independent of individual characteristics, while the second
question examined whether the perceptions and individual characteristics are modified by the neighbourhood socio-economic
context. Our results show that perceived neighbourhood characteristics, in addition to individual sociodemographic factors,
are significant correlates of self rated health and quality of life. Moreover, we show that the type of perceived neighbourhood
characteristics and the magnitude of their influence on self rated health and quality of life vary depending on whether they
live in high- versus low-socioeconomic status neighbourhoods.
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James RandallEmail: |
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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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Astra N. Bonini 《Social indicators research》2008,87(2):223-236
This study adds to the literature on subjective well-being and life satisfaction by exploring variation in individual life
satisfaction across countries. Understanding whether and how individual life satisfaction varies across countries is important
because if the goal of development is to increase well-being, we must identify the causes of well-being in different national
and regional contexts. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, I test the hypothesis that individual well-being does
vary across countries, and that national wealth, human development and environmental conditions explain this variation. I
also test whether the effects of individual characteristics on life satisfaction (including age, marital status, education,
income, employment status, and sex) vary across countries, and which country level characteristics explain these variations.
Using individual level data from the World Values Survey, I find that there is significant variation in life satisfaction
across countries. There is also significant variation in the slopes of individual predictors of life satisfaction across countries
and regions. Regional differences in the effects of individual characteristics on life satisfaction explain most of the between
country variation in life satisfaction. This indicates that universal development indicators may not adequately reflect differences
in life satisfaction across countries, and that development measurements should better reflect regional differences.
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Astra N. BoniniEmail: |
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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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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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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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This study is part of a collaborative project examining the quality of life in Confucian societies in Asia. Our major findings
suggest that, when our sixteen specific life domains are grouped into three life spheres, namely, material, post-material,
and public, the Japanese people tend to be most satisfied with the post-material sphere of life and least satisfied with the
public sphere of life such as the condition of environment and welfare system. In searching the direct, independent effects
of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, and domain assessments on the quality of life, none of the public life domain
assessments shows a significant impact on the quality of life, while friendships and spiritual life in the post-material sphere
of life are an important determinant. Equally notable is the finding that neither educational attainment nor household income
contributes significantly to the experience of subjective well-being. Leading a global lifestyle also affects positively the
quality of life. Finally, being married and satisfaction with marital life appear to be powerful and prevalent influence on
the quality of life in Japan.
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Takashi InoguchiEmail: |
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Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Felicia A. Huppert Nic Marks Andrew Clark Johannes Siegrist Alois Stutzer Joar Vittersø Morten Wahrendorf 《Social indicators research》2009,91(3):301-315
It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, predominantly economic
and social ones. Yet in most developed nations, increases in income, education and health have arguably not produced comparable
increases in happiness or life satisfaction. While much has been learned from the introduction of subjective measures of global
happiness or life satisfaction into surveys, significant recent progress in the development of high-quality subjective measures
of personal and social well-being has not been fully exploited. This article describes the development of a set of well-being
indicators which were included in Round 3 of the European Social Survey. This Well-being Module seeks to evaluate the success
of European countries in promoting the personal and social well-being of their citizens. In addition to providing a better
understanding of domain-specific measures, such as those relating to family, work and income, the design of the Well-being
Module recognises that advancement in the field requires us to look beyond measures which focus on how people feel (happiness,
pleasure, satisfaction) to measures which are more concerned with how well they function. This also shifts the emphasis from
relatively transient states of well-being to measures of more sustainable well-being. The ESS Well-being Module represents
one of the first systematic attempts to create a set of policy-relevant national well-being accounts.
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Morten WahrendorfEmail: |
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Chong-Min Park 《Social indicators research》2009,92(2):263-294
The AsiaBarometer survey of 1,023 respondents shows Life in Korea is highly modernized and digitalized without being much
globalized. Despite the modernization and digitalization of their lifestyles, ordinary citizens still prioritize materialistic
values more than post-materialistic values, and they remain least satisfied in the material life sphere. A multivariate analysis
of the Korean survey reveals that their positive assessments of their standard of living and marriage are the most powerful
influences on the quality of life they experience. Remarkable improvements in the objective conditions of life for the past
three decades have failed to transform Korea into a nation of well-being.
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Chong-Min ParkEmail: |
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The present study considers how the athletic performance of minority groups relates to national subjective well-being (SWB)
and life expectancy. Based on the argument that sports represent a microcosm of society and the reliable finding that national
inequality is associated with reduced SWB, we hypothesized that greater opportunities for typically disadvantaged groups within
sports should be positively related to national indicators of well-being. Study 1 compared the relation of success in the
Paralympics versus the Olympics to national subjective well-being and life expectancy. The results supported our hypothesis.
In Study 2 we conceptually replicated these results using the standings of national men’s and women’s soccer teams. Overall,
it appears that the opportunities to compete in sports that nations afford to members of disadvantaged groups reflect on the
health and well-being of the entire society.
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Michelle DownieEmail: |
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This study used a nationally representative sample of young people in Germany from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine
how demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the young persons and their parents, personality traits of the young
persons, quality and quantity of relationships, the parent's level of life satisfaction, and other measures of satisfaction
for the young person are related to the initial assessment of life satisfaction by the individual at the critical point of
transition from adolescence to adulthood. The results indicated that consistency existed across different domains of satisfaction,
specifically satisfaction with life and satisfaction with grades. A strong pattern of association was also observed between
the subjective well-being of the adolescents and variables that measured different dimensions of the quality and quantity
of interpersonal relationships, including relationships with parents.
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Eileen TrzcinskiEmail: |
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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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The AsiaBarometer of 1,000 respondents shows that Hong Kong people have a great desire for materialistic attainment, and such
an emphasis on materialism bodes ill for their quality of life. Negative assessments of the public life sphere, which encompasses
the natural environment, the social welfare system, and the democratic system, also detract from the experiences of happiness,
enjoyment, and accomplishment in Hong Kong. Surprisingly, access to digital communication devices helps Hong Kong people to
experience a greater quality of life.
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Ming SingEmail: |
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Nowadays many agents meet defensive expenditures to protect themselves against environmental deterioration. Such expenditures may contribute to support economic growth. Environmental degradation, in fact, may induce agents to work harder to replace depleted environmental goods with substitute goods. The consequent rise in the activity level may further deplete the environment, worsening the agents’ expectations on the future environmental quality and increasing their demand for substitute goods. To examine this issue, we adopt a simple model in which agents formulate expectations on the future environment that can be right or wrong and examine how such expectations influence capital accumulation and growth.
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A. AntociEmail: |
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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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Michael A. Shields Stephen Wheatley Price Mark Wooden 《Journal of population economics》2009,22(2):421-443
This paper uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to investigate the association
between neighbourhood effects and life satisfaction. We find that neighbourhood measures of social support and interaction
and the absence of socio-economic deprivation are positively and significantly correlated with individual life satisfaction.
Neighbourhood fixed effects, however, explain only an additional 1.5 to 2.5% of the variance in life satisfaction over the
14% explained by individual characteristics.
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Mark WoodenEmail: |