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Hagerty, Michael R.; Cummins, Robert A.; Ferriss, Abbott L.; Land, Kenneth C.; Michalos, Alex C.; Peterson, Mark F.; Sharpe, Andrew; Sirgy, Joseph; Vogel, Joachim

doi:10.1023/a:1010811312332

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“…However, despite Sen and Anand’s argument that the choice of weights be open to questioning and debate in public discussion (Anand and Sen 1997); several available measures of wellbeing do not make the value judgments and the aggregation method explicit and thus cannot be open to public scrutiny on what a good life should look like. Hagerty et al (2001) review over 20 quality of life indices and conclude than none adequately addresses the issue of weighting.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi

Greco

2016

Soc Indic Res

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Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that encompass the full range of factors that make life worth living. This study is part of a project that aims at developing a multidimensional index based on Sen’s capability framework to assess women’s wellbeing in rural Malawi: the Women's Capabilities Index. The project identifies a set of capabilities relevant to the context; proposes a methodology to measure robustly these capabilities; aggregates the capabilities into a single metric (index); and validates and tests the index. This paper focuses on the weighting and aggregation of the index. Four weighting methods of aggregation are chosen: two normative approaches; a data-driven approach; and a hybrid method. The different methods have implications on the results which are critically assessed and compared. This study contributes to the literature on the implications of adopting different methods for setting the weights in composite measures of wellbeing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi

Greco

2016

Soc Indic Res

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“…Felce (1996) classified quality of life as being influenced by six broad elements: physical, material, emotional, social, productive, and rights/civic wellbeing. Similarly, a study by Hagerty et al (2001) found quality of life to be influenced by seven main domains: health, material wellbeing, social inclusion, work and productive activity, emotional wellbeing, personal safety, and relationship with family and friends. This structure is largely consistent with the WHO's categorisation of quality of life into six components: physical wellbeing, environmental wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, social relations, level of independence, and spiritual wellbeing (WHO, 1997).…”

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confidence: 91%

Enhancing quality of life through the lens of green spaces: A systematic review approach

Mensah¹,

Andres²,

Perera³

et al. 2016

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:Improving citizens' quality of life is a stated priority of many governments in both the global north and south. However, efforts to achieve this often focus on socio-economic measures, with limited attention to the contributions of environmental variables such as green spaces. This paper sought to bridge this knowledge gap by tracing the linkages between green spaces and quality of life, and how these connections can inform policy development in order to assist governments to achieve positive outcomes for quality of life. The paper took a theoretical approach by utilising the systematic review method. In all, 452 publications were included in this review, and rigorous content analysis was employed to retrieve relevant data. Green spaces were found to provide various social, economic, and environmental benefits, which in turn improve physical, psychological, emotional, social, and material wellbeing of individuals and thus enhance quality of life. It is therefore strongly recommended that conservation of green spaces should be integrated into national health, environmental and socio-economic policies in order to promote effective utilisation of green spaces to enhance citizens' overall quality of life.

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“…Thus, although their utility has been disputed, the HDI is useful when the research inquiry is interested in the 'net' effect of a variety of indicators, even when different weights are assigned to its components. In this respect, the HDI is considered ''excellent in the general level of aggregation in its purpose of providing an assessment of development'' (Hagerty et al 2001). …”

Section: Conceptualizing Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%