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The Youth Welfare Index is a summary measure of the status of youth that provides insight into how youth well-being has evolved over time. The index is constructed by aggregating results from a set of specific indicators of youth’s status. For decades, indices have been instrumental in monitoring socioeconomic trends and the quality of life, including those for children and adolescents. The Youth Welfare Index is a useful tool for policymakers and activists interested in advancing the living conditions of the younger generations.
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First developed in Chaaban (2009), the Youth Welfare Index expands a flexible empirical methodology for the construction of a multidimensional summary indicator of the livelihoods of youth around the world. This new index presents an improvement over the single indicator approach to measuring youth development. Single indicators might show youth faring well in one area, while others...
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Chaaban, J. (2023). Youth Welfare Index. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_3714
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