QUALITY OF LIFE AS A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CATEGORY AND AS AN OBJECT OF STATISTICAL RESEARCH
Journal Title: Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Економіка. - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue 157
Abstract
Increasing role of quality of life took place in countries all over the world. Writers since Aristotle have speculated on the "good life" and how public policy can help to nurture it. The last 50 years have seen a great many attempts to measure quality of life in many parts of the world. Only recently have we had the resources and the science to begin measuring the "good life" and how it arises. So, the purpose of this paper is to define and analyze the evolution of quality of life and approaches to measuring quality of life. During the last few decades, two new scientific approaches to measuring quality of life have been initiated – "objective" or social indicators, and the measurement of subjective well – being. The social indicators movement focuses its attention on measuring. The growth of the social indicators movement coincided with the questioning of economic growth in terms of whether more was always better. Subjective well – being research is concerned with individuals' subjective experience of their lives. Social indicators and subjective well – being measures are based on different definitions of quality of life. Each approach to measuring the quality of life contains information that is not contained in the other measures. Quality of life is a complex, multifaceted construct that requires multiple approaches from different theoretical angles. A number of governments and public policy institutes have developed quality of life indices – statistics that attempt to measure the quality of life for entire states or regions.
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Iryna Romaniuk
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- DOI 10.17721/1728-2667.2014/157-4/18
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