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dc.contributor.author | Rahman, Tauhidur | en |
dc.contributor.author | Mittelhammer, Ron C. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Wandscheider, Philip | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-21T09:31:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-21T09:31:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9291906735 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63384 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |cHelsinki | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aWIDER Research Paper |x2005/06 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D60 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D63 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | quality of life | en |
dc.subject.keyword | domains of quality of life | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Borda rule | en |
dc.subject.keyword | principal components analysis | en |
dc.subject.keyword | well-being indices | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lebensqualität | en |
dc.subject.stw | Sozialer Indikator | en |
dc.title | Measuring the quality of life across countries: A sensitivity analysis of well-being indices | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 480586861 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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