Synthetic Indicators of Quality of Subjective Life in the EU: Rural and Urban Areas

Sánchez-Sellero, María Carmen; García-Carro, Beatriz; Sánchez‐Sellero, Pedro

doi:10.18267/j.pep.783

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“…Services. The literature review did not identify any quality of life framework applicable at local level, therefore international and national frameworks were analys [6,9,16,28,43,44,76,100].…”

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Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

Beltramo,

Peira,

Pasino

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Quality of life can be generally defined as people’s satisfaction with their lives and personal wellbeing. Contemporary literature agrees that dimensions such as health, education, employment, leisure, social relations, security, environment, landscape, and cultural heritage should be considered. Tourism serves as a stimulus for rural development, and assessing residents’ and tourists’ quality of life is relevant for local administrators of a tourist destination. Given the absence of quality-of-life models for individual municipalities, the research questions were aimed at the mapping of quality-of-life frameworks and the construction of a set of quality-of-life indicators for Alagna Valsesia. This research was conducted in 2023. The results of the research showed the possibility of constructing a modular model of indicator sets aimed particularly at decision making by territorial policymakers. The limitations of the research are related to the difficulty of finding different indicators in public platforms and, in the future, we would like to build a synthetic indicator replicable in other Piedmontese and Italian municipalities.

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Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

Beltramo,

Peira,

Pasino

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…A more detailed breakdown into men and women provides different data for each gender. As we have already mentioned, Sánchez-Sellero et al [13] propose to replace the measurement of QOL by one value with a measurement of two values, reflecting the QOL in urban and rural parts of countries. Our findings support this proposal.…”

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“…The priority given to cities was related to the fact that rural development has lagged behind urban development, to which researchers and policymakers have responded [10][11][12][13].…”

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“…It can be concluded that rural development has lagged behind urban development, to which researchers and policymakers have responded. Sánchez-Sellero et al [13] suggest replacing the one-value measurement of QOL with a two-value measurement, thus reflecting the QOL in a country's urban and rural parts. In response to the necessity to address rural challenges, OECD [25] comes up with a new "Wellbeing Policy Framework," in which the economic approach to countryside is extended to include the environmental and social dimensions of wellbeing of rural populations.…”

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Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Quality of Life

Petrovič

Maturkanič

2022

Sustainability

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This paper is focused on the urban-rural dichotomy as one of the dichotomies of quality of life (QOL). The first objective is to find out whether the quality of urban life, or the quality of rural life, is higher in Czechia. The hypothesis assumes that the quality of urban life is higher. The second objective is to identify predictors of QOL and compare values for the residents of cities and villages. In the Theoretical Background section, we discuss cities and urban life, plus villages and rural life. In the QOL section, we explore the quality of urban and rural life in Czechia, and give examples of QOL measurements in Czech municipalities. In the Measurement and Findings section we measure QOL with a subjective indicator on the Cantril scale, and derive findings from these measurements. The correlations between QOL and other variables yield very strong predictors of both urban and rural quality of life. The measurements also yielded two “by products”: The first was the finding that women’s measured values are, except for women’s quality of city life, higher than the measured values of men. The second was the finding that the combination of quality of place and quality of the environment, which we named ‘geographical matter’, was rated higher by the respondents than the combination of QOL and happiness, which we named ‘psychological matter’.

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“…In other cases, while not claiming that life satisfaction is the ultimate measure of WB, life dissatisfaction is regarded as one of the main deprivation measures (e.g., Murphy and Scott 2014;OECD 2020). Others contend that life satisfaction is only one of the several components of WB, among other subjective and objective components (Fulford et al 2015;Sánchez-Sellero, García-Carro, and Sánchez-Sellero 2021;Shucksmith et al 2009). Most frequently in the reviewed literature, however, life satisfaction is considered an individual-level output measure of WB, also referred to as individual WB.…”

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What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*

Veréb,

Marques,

Madureira

et al. 2024

Rural Sociology

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While a substantial body of literature has been built on rural well‐being, due to the great heterogeneity of rural territories, the literature is highly fragmented, even contradictory. Moreover, no systematic review of the entire domain exists to guide rural decision‐makers. Debated conceptualization, contradicting results, and pressing policy requirements make it timely to deliver a systematized state‐of‐the‐art on rural well‐being to anchor public policies in the rural development domain. By systematically reviewing the scholarly literature on rural well‐being and all documents developed by government and private entities that academia highlighted as relevant to this subject, the study provides a bibliometric and thematic analysis of the domain without a time limit. Thirty‐three rural well‐being dimensions and over 9,000 indicators within these dimensions have been identified, their interconnections established and their relevance to international development goals highlighted. The study presents the structure and content of this indicator database and provides suggestions for rural researchers and policymakers on how to use it to build their own well‐being framework. It also provides an overview of each rural well‐being dimension by discussing the key theories, the main inconsistencies, the most relevant studies and authors, the fundamental measurement frameworks, and the indicators used.

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Synthetic Indicators of Quality of Subjective Life in the EU: Rural and Urban Areas

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Quality of Life

What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*

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