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Indicators and Community Well-Being: Exploring a Relational Framework

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Indicators are used in a variety of contexts for exploring community and regional conditions, progress towards goals, and gauging current conditions. We explore the role indicators play in aiding assessment of community well-being, including how they are applied. We consider community well-being to be a comprehensive concept in many dimensions of community life and explore its relations to indicators. Based on ideas around domains and sub-domains as well as relevant indicators, we find that indicators may serve a role in conceptualizing and assessing community well-being. It is a complex undertaking but there exists enough conceptualization and application that a relational framework is proposed with the intent of aiding in tying the use of indicators to assessment of community well-being.

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  1. Many thanks to a reviewer who expressed this to us in the review, encouraging a more differentiated conception of community.

  2. Ibid.

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  2. Honors College, Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    HeeKyung Sung & Rhonda G. Phillips

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Sung, H., Phillips, R.G. Indicators and Community Well-Being: Exploring a Relational Framework. Int. Journal of Com. WB 1, 63–79 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42413-018-0006-0

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