@techreport{Rahman2005Measuring,
abstract = {This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of interrelationships among the determinants of the quality of life (QOL). We show that various measures of well-being are highly sensitive to domains of QOL that are considered in the construction of comparative indices, and how measurable well-being indicators are aggregated and weighted to arrive at composite measures of QOL. We present a picture of conditions among the 43 countries of the world with respect to such interrelated domains of QOL as the relationship with family and friends, emotional well-being, health, work and productivity, material well-being, feeling part of one's community, personal safety, and the quality of environment. On the basis of Borda rule and the principal components approach, we search for factor-indices that may function as QOL indices across countries. Comparing and analysing well-being conditions among countries in this way aim to facilitate the discovery of problems with government policies impacting QOL.},
address = {Helsinki},
author = {Tauhidur Rahman and Ron C. Mittelhammer and Philip Wandscheider},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {9291906735},
keywords = {I31; D60; D63; 330; quality of life; domains of quality of life; Borda rule; principal components analysis; well-being indices; Lebensqualit\"{a}t; Sozialer Indikator},
language = {eng},
number = {2005/06},
publisher = {UNU-WIDER},
title = {Measuring the quality of life across countries: A sensitivity analysis of well-being indices},
type = {Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU)},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63384},
year = {2005}
}
