Digest of selected demographic and social indicators 1960-1994 for CDCC member countries

Includes bibliography

Well-being and equity: analytic challenges and social indicators

Includes bibliography

Social indicators and development planning

Includes bibliography

Reconceptualizing social indicators in the Caribbean: a review and discussion

Includes bibliography

Regional digest of selected demographic and social indicators 1960-1990

Includes bibliography

Ranking web services using centralities and social indicators

Nowadays, developers of web application mashups face a sheer overwhelming variety and pluralism of web services. Therefore, choosing appropriate web services to achieve specific goals requires a certain amount of knowledge as well as expertise. In order to support users in choosing appropriate web services it is not only important to match their search criteria to a dataset of possible choices but also to rank the results according to their relevance, thus minimizing the time it takes for taking such a choice. Therefore, we investigated six ranking approaches in an empirical manner and compared them to each other. Moreover, we have had a look on how one can combine those ranking algorithms linearly in order to maximize the quality of their outputs.

Social Indicators in the Sustainable Refurbishment: Calculating Quality of Life Indicator in a Residential Building in Málaga

How can we measure ‘quality of life’? The sustainable refurbishment goes beyond strictly energy aspects. Sustainability indicators are needed to facilitate data collection and to provide information which does not require too time-consuming calculations. Thus, you can offer an idea of the extent and quality of the rehabilitation before starting the project and, also, the obtained results can be evaluated in an agile way after the refurbishment. From a list of social indicators gathered from different methods, sustainability assessment tools and International and European standards, three social indicators are proposed: Users Satisfaction, Participation Agreement and Quality of Life. This paper shows the development of Quality of Life social indicator, the more closely related to the main objectives of Researchand Development Project “Sustainable Refurbishment”: improving energy efficiency and wellbeing of users in existing residential buildings. Finally, this social indicator is applied to a real case study in Málaga (Spain).

Social Indicators for the European Community, 1960-1975. July 1977

This volume 'Social Indicators' is the first of its kind to be produced by the Statistical Office of the European Communities. It presents a selection of statistics on social conditions and trends in member countries. Sections; Demography; Employment; Working life; Standard of living; Social protection; Health; Edudation; Housing; International notes.

Social indicators for the aged; a study of the status and needs of older Mississippians,

Field work: Oct. 1971-Jan. 1972.

Social indicators and comparisons of living standards

Construction of an international index of standards of living, incorporating social indicators and economic output, typically involves scaling and weighting procedures that lack welfare-economic foundations. Revealed preference axioms can be used to make quality-of-life comparisons if we can estimate the representative household's production technology for the social indicators. This method is applied to comparisons of gross domestic product (GDP) and life expectancy for 58 countries. Neither GDP rankings, nor the rankings of the Human Development Index (HDI), are consistent with the partial ordering of revealed preference. A method of constructing a utility-consistent index incorporating both consumption and life expectancy is suggested. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

A system of indicators for monitoring social cohesion in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Latin America through the lens of social cohesion: selected indicators

Spanish document available at the Library

Social cohesion in Latin America: concepts, frames of reference and Indicators

Includes bibliography