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Title: |
Social Indicators |
| Sub-title: |
Statistics, Trends & Policy Development |
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| By (author): |
Candace M Baird |
| ISBN10-13: |
1611228417 : 9781611228410 |
| Illustrations: |
tables |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
182 |
| Weight: |
.536 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - August 2011 |
| List Price: |
115.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Society & culture: general |
| Social indicators measure the quality of life and encompass the whole spectrum of society, including the individual, public and private organisations, municipal, country, regional, national and international systems. This book presents topical research in the study of social indicators from across the globe. Some topics discussed in this compilation include social scientific metrology as the mediator between sociology and socionomy; discretionary time and freely disposable time as social indicators of welfare, poverty and freedoms; socioeconomic status and the incidence of illness and social capital. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Social Scientific Metrology as the Mediator between Sociology & Socionomy: A Cri de Coeur for the Systemizing of Social Indicators; Discretionary Time & Freely Disposable Time: Two New Integrated Indicators of Welfare, Poverty & Freedoms; Introducing the Concept of Functional Time Use (FTU) as a Tool for Measuring the Labour Burden: A Case Study from the Bolivian Amazon; Genoa Index of Deprivation (GDI): An Index of Material Deprivation for Geographical Areas; Social Capital Indicators & their Utilization in Environmental Policies for Protected Areas; What Agro-Processing Can Do to the Social Conditions of Rural Subsistent Farmers: The Case of Milenovisi Association in Ghana; Explaining Social Determinants & Health Risk: The Case of Female Sex Workers in Hong Kong & China; Evaluating Environmental & Regional Policies in the European Union through the Use of Environmental Quality Indices; Is Generalized Trust Useful as the Indicator of Social Capital for Small Area Analysis in Japan? |
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