The State of the Art in Indicators Construction. In the perspective of a comprehensive approach in measuring well-being of societies
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The State of the Art in Indicators Construction. In the perspective of a comprehensive approach in measuring well-being of societies
Author
Filomena Maggino
Organisation
University of Florence, Italy
Date
2010
Type
Report
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Abstract
Measuring well-being of societies requires a multidimensional and integrated approach aimed at describing the health of societies through a complex multifaceted and compound methodology. The aim of this work is to unravel some important methodological aspects and issues that should be considered in measuring societal well-being in quantitative perspective and in developing indicators of well-being. The purpose is to focus on, to examine closely and to investigate the conceptual issues in defining and developing indicators and the methodologies and operative issues in managing the complexity of the obtained observation, integrating objective and subjective aspects of the reality.
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