An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach

Grasso, Marco; Canova, Luciano

doi:10.1007/s11205-007-9158-7

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“…In our view they are mistaken about the extent to which indicators of subjective well-being are policy amenable. Although subjective well-being may be difficult to measure (Grasso and Canova, 2008), it has its own merits as a domain of well-being. Indeed some may argue that it is the essence of wellbeing to which all the other domains are merely contributors.…”

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Child Well-being in the Pacific Rim

Lau

Bradshaw

2010

Child Ind Res

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This study extends previous efforts to compare the well-being of children using multidimensional indicators derived from sample survey and administrative series to thirteen countries in the Pacific Rim. The framework for the analysis of child well-being is to organise 46 indicators into 21 components and organise the components into 6 domains: material situation, health, education, subjective well-being, living environment, as well as risk and safety. Overall, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan have the highest child well-being and Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines the lowest. However, there are substantial variations between the domains. Japan and Korea perform best on the material well-being of children and also do well on health and education but they have the lowest subjective well-being among their children by some margin. There is a relationship between child well-being and GDP per capita but children in China have higher well-being than you would expect given their GDP and children in Australia have lower well-being. The analysis is constrained by missing data particularly that the Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children Survey is not undertaken in any of these countries.

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Section: Conceptualisation Of Child Well-beingmentioning

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Child Well-being in the Pacific Rim

Lau

Bradshaw

2010

Child Ind Res

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“…Possible disparities in well-being evidenced among nations, while having been for some time a matter of discussion in economic and political debate, are currently entering a phase in which their quantification is increasingly important (see for example: Grasso and Canova 2008;Somarriba and Pena 2009;Ivaldi and Testi 2011;Reig-Martínez 2013).…”

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The Construction of a Synthetic Index Comparing Multidimensional Well-Being in the European Union

2015

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For many years, the quantification and measurement of level of well-being in a society has become an object of study by researchers, economists, international organizations and institutions. The purpose of these researches and applications is mainly the collection of data as accurate and complete as possible, dictating the paths of economic and social development policies, in order to help the economic problem of allocating scarce resources within a community, where not all individual needs can be fully met. The present work is intended as a part of that field. It will undertake the construction of a composite index of multidimensional well-being, through an aggregation of data, able to balance the trade-off between immediacy and completeness of information and to trespass the limits that characterize the commonly used income related measures. The method of factor analysis, which aims at detecting a statistically sufficient number of variables, is used to represent most of the explained variance of the phenomenon. Results are tested with different aggregative processes. This analysis is applied to the reality of the European Union, characterized by deep transformation and cultural, economic and social inequalities

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“…Generally speaking, existing literature does not provide a definite answer to the question: which domains and what relevant variables/proxies should be selected into a synthetic/ composite index measuring the overall level of economic and social development/quality of life (Jones and Riseborough 2002;Kazana and Kazaklis 2008;Erikson 1993;Johansson 2002;Grasso and Canova 2007). While in international comparison studies some consensus was achieved concerning the inclusion of specific domains into such an index (the list of an index's components includes various important quality of life aspects linked to, e.g.…”

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