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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Current Social Indicator and Social Reporting Programs: National and Comparative Experience
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Applying Social Indicators to Effect Social Change
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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.
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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
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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