Predicting the quality of life in the United States |
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Authors: | Ruth C Young Dean Maccannell |
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Institution: | 1. Cornell University, Cornell, USA 2. University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Abstract: | A principal components analysis performed by David M. Smith on 47 U.S. state level indicators of social well-being yielded several components. The first two of these are socio-economic well-being and social pathology. Structural hypotheses are offered to explain state differences in these components. The structural variables condensed by a principal components analysis of state political, economic and social structure measures are differentiation, flexibility-rigidity, and progressive industrialization. These, along with several population measures, determine a substantial part of the variance in the two measures of social well-being. |
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