Search Results - "Social indicators research"

On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness by Greco, Salvatore, Ishizaka, Alessio, Tasiou, Menelaos, Torrisi, Gianpiero

“…In recent times, composite indicators have gained astounding popularity in a wide variety of research areas. Their adoption by global institutions has further…”
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Flexible Working, Work–Life Balance, and Gender Equality: Introduction by Chung, Heejung, van der Lippe, Tanja

“…This special brings together innovative and multidisciplinary research (sociology, economics, and social work) using data from across Europe and the US…”
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Mapping the Evolution of Social Research and Data Science on 30 Years of Social Indicators Research by Aria, Massimo, Misuraca, Michelangelo, Spano, Maria

“…Social Indicators Research (SIR) year by year has consolidated its preeminent position in the debate concerning the study of all the aspects of quality of life…”
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Effect of Financial Inclusion on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence Using a Multidimensional Measure of Financial Inclusion by Koomson, Isaac, Villano, Renato A., Hadley, David

“…This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households. Using data extracted from the seventh…”
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The Impact of Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability on CO2 Emissions: A Novel Framework for Thirty IEA Countries by Khan, Irfan, Hou, Fujun

“…The extent to which socio-economic factors other than income and household size are associated with household CO 2 emissions and whether associations vary…”
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Decent Living Standards: Material Prerequisites for Human Wellbeing by Rao, Narasimha D., Min, Jihoon

“…We define a set of universal, irreducible and essential set of material conditions for achieving basic human wellbeing, along with indicators and quantitative…”
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The Essentials of Social Cohesion: A Literature Review by Schiefer, David, van der Noll, Jolanda

“…The social cohesion literature repeatedly criticizes a lack of consensus regarding the theoretical conceptualization of the construct. The current paper…”
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Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being by Huppert, Felicia A., So, Timothy T. C.

“…Governments around the world are recognising the importance of measuring subjective well-being as an indicator of progress. But how should well-being be…”
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Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales by Diener, Ed, Inglehart, Ronald, Tay, Louis

“…National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life…”
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Beyond Formal Access: Organizational Context, Working From Home, and Work–Family Conflict of Men and Women in European Workplaces by van der Lippe, Tanja, Lippényi, Zoltán

“…Working from home has become engraved in modern working life. Although advocated as a solution to combine work with family life, surprisingly little empirical…”
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Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK by Chung, Heejung

“…This study examines the prevalence and the gender differences in the perceptions and experiences of flexibility stigma—i.e., the belief that workers who use…”
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Trust in Government Actions During the COVID-19 Crisis by Rieger, Marc Oliver, Wang, Mei

“…The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic puts countries and their governments in an unprecedented situation. Strong countermeasures have been implemented in most…”
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The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Across Age by Siedlecki, Karen L., Salthouse, Timothy A., Oishi, Shigehiro, Jeswani, Sheena

“…The relationships among types of social support and different facets of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect)…”
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Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece by Streimikiene, Dalia, Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios L., Lekavicius, Vidas, Siksnelyte-Butkiene, Indre

“…EU has set ambitious commitment to achieve low carbon energy and economy transition up to 2050. This low carbon transition means sustainable energy development…”
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Financial Literacy, Portfolio Choice and Financial Well-Being by Chu, Zhong, Wang, Zhengwei, Xiao, Jing Jian, Zhang, Weiqiang

“…This study examined potential effects of financial literacy on household portfolio choice and investment return, an indicator of financial wellbeing. Using…”
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Reliability, Population Classification and Weighting in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: A Monte Carlo Study by Catalán, Héctor E. Nájera

“…In poverty measurement, differential weighting aims to take into account the unequal importance of the diverse dimensions and aspects of poverty and to add…”
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Exploring Livelihood Resilience and Its Impact on Livelihood Strategy in Rural China by Liu, Wei, Li, Jie, Ren, Linjing, Xu, Jie, Li, Cong, Li, Shuzhuo

“…In an effort to mitigate ecological environments and improve human well-being, the Chinese government’s largest-ever relocation and settlement programme is…”
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New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings by Diener, Ed, Wirtz, Derrick, Tov, William, Kim-Prieto, Chu, Choi, Dong-won, Oishi, Shigehiro, Biswas-Diener, Robert

“…Measures of well-being were created to assess psychological flourishing and feelings—positive feelings, negative feelings, and the difference between the two…”
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Approaches and Alternatives to the Wealth Index to Measure Socioeconomic Status Using Survey Data: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis by Poirier, Mathieu J. P., Grépin, Karen A., Grignon, Michel

“…Monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires the global community to disaggregate targets along socio-economic lines, but…”
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Sensitivity of Livelihood Strategy to Livelihood Capital: An Empirical Investigation Using Nationally Representative Survey Data from Rural China by Xu, Dingde, Deng, Xin, Guo, Shili, Liu, Shaoquan

“…Research on the association between rural households’ livelihood capitals and livelihood strategies has long been of interest in geography, management,…”
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