Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe How Are We Doing? /

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s. Following the lead of pioneers in North America and Europe, social scientists in other regions of the world have adopted and refined social data systems or barom...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Møller, Valerie (Editor ), Huschka, Denis (Editor ), Michalos, Alex C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Social Indicators Research Series, 33
Temas:
Quality of life.
Social policy.
Development economics.
Science-History.
Social sciences.
Quality of Life Research.
Social Policy.
Development Economics.
History of Science.
Society.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • European Survey Data: Rich Sources for Quality of Life Research
  • Two Decades of Social Weather Reporting in the Philippines
  • Monitoring Democratic Politics, a Market Economy, and Citizen Well-Being: The South Korea Barometer
  • Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America: Some Insights from Happiness Economics and the Latinobarometro
  • Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)
  • Quality of Life Down-Under: The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index
  • The Material and Political Bases of Lived Poverty in Africa: Insights from the Afrobarometer
  • The AsiaBarometer: Its Aim, Its Scope and Its Development.

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