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Category : Economic indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Kenneth C. Land
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400724211
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds. Social indicators are statistical time series “...used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change”. Examples include unemployment rates, crime rates, estimates of life expectancy, health status indices, school enrollment rates, average achievement scores, election voting rates, and measures of subjective well-being such as satisfaction with life-as-a-whole and with specific domains or aspects of life. This book provides a review of the historical development of the field including the history of QOL in medicine and mental health as well as the research related to quality-of-work-life (QWL) programs. It discusses several of QOL main concepts: happiness, positive psychology, and subjective wellbeing. Relations between spirituality and religiousness and QOL are examined as are the effects of educational attainment on QOL and marketing, and the associations with economic growth. The book goes on to investigate methodological approaches and issues that should be considered in measuring and analysing quality of life from a quantitative perspective. The final chapters are dedicated to research on elements of QOL in a broad range of countries and populations.

Author: Raymond A. Bauer
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Languages : en
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Author: Frank M. Andrews
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468422537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate representative samplings of the American population. One of the ways our research is unusual is that it includes a major methodological component. Typical surveys involve a modest effort at instru ment development, the application of the instrument to a group of respondents, and an analysis of the resulting data that mainly describes the people studied. Our work, however, was implemented in a series of sequential cycles, each of which consisted of conceptual development, instrument design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Ideas and findings generated in prior cycles affected the design of subsequent cycles.

Author: N'kosi Craigwell-Walkes
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668672296
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 9

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Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: 90.00, University of the West Indies, language: English, abstract: Development is defined as the standard of living of people economic development is supportive and it involves increased per capita income and creation of new opportunities in education, healthcare, employment sectors. In the 1950s and 1960s, development was mainly looked at through an economic lens and a country was developed was based on the standard and output of a country’s economy. A more overall view began to take place in the 1970s as aspects such as poverty, health and education started to be considered and recognised as social issues that resulted from trying to achieve economic development. This lead to the birth of the measurement of social development and the emergence of social indicators of development. The two categories of economic and social indicators of development facilitate a more wholesome way of analysing and determining development. Each of these indicators has its own importance that helps to classify countries development and their economies which is what this essay will be looking to discuss.

Author: World Bank
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264312854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This report, the ninth edition of the biennial OECD overview of social indicators, addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends. This year’s edition presents 25 indicators, several of which are new, and includes data for 36 OECD member countries and ...

Author: Nancy Baster
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714629674
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Compilation of interdisciplinary research papers on the measurement of economic development, social change and modernization, with particular reference to the development of social indicators and economic indicators - comprises essays on theoretical problems and methodology (incl. Economic analysis, etc.). References.

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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
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Summary, access information, and contacts and references for "Social indicators of development", that "contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a pciture of the social effects of economic development." Access to Social indicators of development database is available through a World Wide Web search interface.

Author: Ian Miles
Publisher:
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Category : Social indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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