ISBN:
9789400738980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 322 p. 60 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Social Indicators Research Series 48
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. Quality of life in Italy
DDC:
306.0945
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Quality of Life
;
Statistics
;
Quality of Life Research
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Quality of Life
;
Statistics
;
Quality of Life Research
;
Quality of life
;
Italy
;
Quality of life
;
Evaluation
;
Italy
;
Social conditions
;
21st century
Abstract:
{U200B}The outcome of the first Italian National Conference on Quality of Life, this volume is full of cogent analysis of topics and issues related to well being and quality of life, including focused papers on specific population groupings and discrete themes. Held in Florence in September 2010, the conference saw the creation of the Italian Association of Quality-of-Life Studies, devised as a forum for this varied field of research with a rapidly expanding profile in the context of the continuing financial crisis. The papers address a number of recognized quality-of-life concerns, including public health, wealth distribution, employment, political participation and the perception of crime. Contributors deploy innovative methods of analyzing official statistics that result in more complex and multidimensional indicators. Some papers provide data on other European nations that allow for comparative assessment, while others set out fresh approaches to evaluating quality of life itself. Highly relevant not just to academics, but to policy makers and practitioners in a range of sectors, this publication explores important aspects of a crucial contemporary subject
Abstract:
The outcome of the first Italian National Conference on Quality of Life, this volume is full of cogent analysis of topics and issues related to well being and quality of life, including focused papers on specific population groupings and discrete themes. Held in Florence in September 2010, the conference saw the creation of the Italian Association of Quality of Life Studies, devised as a forum for this varied field of research with a rapidly expanding profile in the context of the continuing financial crisis. The papers address a number of recognized quality-of-life concerns, including public health, wealth distribution, employment, political participation and the perception of crime. Contributors deploy innovative methods of analyzing official statistics that result in more complex and multidimensional indicators. Some papers provide data on other European nations that allow for comparative assessment, while others set out fresh approaches to evaluating quality of life itself. Highly relevant not just to academics, but to policy makers and practitioners in a range of sectors, this publication explores important aspects of a crucial contemporary subject.
Description / Table of Contents:
Quality of Life in Italy; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Quality of Life: Methodological Aspects; Chapter 2: Measuring Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being in Italy; 1 Introduction; 2 The Context; 3 A Framework to Measure Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being; 4 Istat Current Production; 4.1 Measuring Economic Performance; 4.1.1 GDP; 4.1.2 Income and Consumption; 4.1.3 The Extension of National Accounts; 4.2 Measuring Quality of Life; 4.2.1 Material Living Standards; 4.2.2 Health; 4.2.3 Education; 4.2.4 Personal Activities and Work; 4.2.5 Political Voice and Governance
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.6 Social Connections and Relationships4.2.7 Insecurity; 4.3 Environmental Statistics and Accounts; 5 The Launch of a National Consultation; Box 2.1; 6 Conclusions; References; Websites; Chapter 3: A Non-compensatory Approach for the Measurement of the Quality of Life; 1 Introduction1; 2 Measuring Quality of Life; 2.1 General Aspects; 2.2 Source of Data; 3 Methods for Constructing Composite Indices; 3.1 The Il Sole 24ore Approach; 3.2 A Non-compensatory Approach; 3.3 Comparisons and Differences; 4 An Application to Italian Provinces; 5 Concluding Remarks; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: From Composite Indicators to Partial Orders: Evaluating Socio-Economic Phenomena Through Ordinal Data1 Introduction; 2 The Composite Indicator Approach and Its Critical Issues; 3 Basic Elements of Partial Order Theory; 4 Evaluating Multidimensional Ordinal Phenomena Through Poset Theory; 4.1 Representing Ordinal Data as Posets; 4.2 The Evaluation Strategy; 4.3 The Evaluation Function; 4.4 Benchmarks and Poset Thresholds; 4.5 Computation of the Evaluation Function; 5 The "Weighting" Problem; 5.1 Extension of a Poset; 5.2 The Weighting Procedure; 6 Binary Variables
Description / Table of Contents:
6.1 The Structure of the Hasse Diagram for Binary Data6.2 The Weighting Procedure in the Binary Case: The Connection Rule; 7 Conclusions and Perspectives; References; Chapter 5: Light and Shade of Multidimensional IndexesHow Methodological Choices Impact on Empirical Results; 1 Introduction; 2 On Multidimensional Indexes and Some Related Methodological Choices; 3 Data; 3.1 A Fieldwork for Collecting Weights; 4 Methodology; 5 Results; 5.1 The Impact of Membership Function Choices; 5.2 The Impact of Beta-Order Means; 5.3 The Impact of Weighting System Choices
Description / Table of Contents:
5.4 Which Methodological Choices Matter Most?5.5 Multidimensional Poverty Trends in Jordan; 6 Conclusions; 7 Annexes; References; Part II: Quality of Life and Social Change Through Italian Official Statistics; Chapter 6: Social and Demographic Change in Italy; Chapter 7: Satisfied or Dissatisfied? An Analysis of the Results of 'Aspects of Daily Life' Italian Survey on Households; 1 Introduction; 2 Data and Methods; 2.1 The Objectives of Multiway Analysis; 3 Results; 3.1 Gender and Age; 3.1.1 Global Comparison of Occasions; 3.1.2 Average Structural Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.3 Interpretation of the Common Structure
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-3898-0
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