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Assessing Quality of Life and Living Conditions to Guide National Policy

The State of the Art

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Editors:
  1. Michael R. Hagerty

    1. University of California, Davis

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  2. Joachim Vogel

    1. Statistics Sweden, Welfare Analysis Program, and University of Umeå, Sweden

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  3. Valerie Møller

    1. Rhodes University, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 11)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Hagerty, Joachim Vogel, Valerie Møller
    Pages 1-11

  4. Current Social Indicator and Social Reporting Programs: National and Comparative Experience

    1. Strategies and Traditions in Swedish Social Reporting: A 30-Year Experience

      • Joachim Vogel
      Pages 89-113

    2. Quality of Life and Living Conditions in the Netherlands

      • Jeroen Boelhouwer
      Pages 115-140

    3. “Quality of Life” Research at the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics: Social Indicators and Social Surveys

      • Charles S. Kamen
      Pages 141-162

    4. Quality of Life in a European Perspective: The EUROMODULE as a New Instrument for Comparative Welfare Research

      • Jan Delhey, Petra Böhnke, Roland Habich, Wolfgang Zapf
      Pages 163-176

    5. The Norbalt Project: Comparative Studies of Living Conditions in the Three Baltic Countries

      • Aadne Aasland, Guri Tyldum
      Pages 177-189

    6. Living Conditions in the Arctic

      • Thomas Andersen, Birger Poppel
      Pages 191-216

    7. Cross-National Comparison of the Quality of Life in Europe: Inventory of Surveys and Methods

      • Michaela Hudler, Rudolf Richter
      Pages 217-228

  5. Applying Social Indicators to Effect Social Change

    1. Telesis: The Uses of Indicators to Set Goals and Develop Programs to Change Conditions

      • Abbott L. Ferriss
      Pages 229-265

    2. The Role of Quality of Life Surveys in Managing Change in Democratic Transitions: The South African Case

      • Valerie Møller, Helga Dickow
      Pages 267-292

    3. Monitoring the Impact of Land Reform on Quality of Life: A South African Case Study

      • Julian May, Thildé Stevens, Annareth Stols
      Pages 293-312

    4. Toward a Social Development Index for Hong Kong: The Process of Community Engagement

      • Richard J. Estes
      Pages 313-347

    5. International Comparisons of Trends in Economic Well-Being

      • Lars Osberg, Andrew Sharpe
      Pages 349-382

    6. Declining Quality of Life Costs Governments Elections: Review of 13 OECD Countries

      • Michael R. Hagerty
      Pages 383-402

    7. Considering Social Cohesion in Quality of Life Assessments: Concept and Measurement

      • Regina Berger-Schmitt
      Pages 403-428

    8. Do Income Surveys Overestimate Poverty in Western Europe? Evidence from a Comparison with Institutional Frameworks

      • Christina Behrendt
      Pages 429-440
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About this book

Our book is a useful "how to" book for researchers and government offices wanting to start or improve their own QOL survey, and contains "best practices" from all over the world. We discuss cutting-edge surveys that are being adopted by all countries in the European community as a standardized measure of each country's progress. We also discuss how developing countries can begin the measurement of Quality of Life in ways that will increase political credibility and require smaller budgets. Other chapters describe policy applications of the Quality of Life surveys, including nations' health goals, smoking cessation, child welfare, and poverty reduction.

The authors of these chapters are the world's top experts on assessing Quality of Life. For example, the author of the first chapter is Sten Johansson, former Director of Statistics Sweden, responsible for creating the first comprehensive QOL assessment systems in the world, beginning in the 1960's. The author of the second chapter is Professor Ruut Veenhoven, known as the premier researcher on national happiness, having developed the largest database in the world on the subjective measures of well-being. Heinz-Herbert Noll is responsible for developing the unified Quality of Life measurement system for the new European Union, where up to 25 countries will be assessed using the same methodology and questionnaires.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Davis

    Michael R. Hagerty

  • Statistics Sweden, Welfare Analysis Program, and University of Umeå, Sweden

    Joachim Vogel

  • Rhodes University, South Africa

    Valerie Møller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assessing Quality of Life and Living Conditions to Guide National Policy

  • Book Subtitle: The State of the Art

  • Editors: Michael R. Hagerty, Joachim Vogel, Valerie Møller

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47513-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0727-9Published: 31 July 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6064-8Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47513-9Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 450

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH, 58:1-3

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Quality of Life Research, Political Science

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