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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rahman, Tauhidur | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Mittelhammer, Ron C. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Wandscheider, Philip | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-09-21T09:31:32Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-09-21T09:31:32Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2005 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | | 9291906735 | | en_US |
| 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_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | UNU-WIDER Helsinki | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2005/06 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I31 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D60 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D63 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | quality of life | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | domains of quality of life | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Borda rule | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | principal components analysis | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | well-being indices | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensqualität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sozialer Indikator | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Measuring the quality of life across countries: A sensitivity analysis of well-being indices | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 480586861 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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