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on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life.
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Fall, November 2001, Number 68
REPORT ON THE 2001 CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY-OF-LIFE STUDIES:
2001 ISQOLS Conference Notes
2001 ISQOLS Conference Keynote Address: The Benefits of Happiness, Satisfaction, and Positive Affect: Subjective Well-Being is Moving from Influential to Necessary for Quality of Life
A brief summary of Ed Diener’s Keynote Address, delivered at the Fourth Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, November 29, 2001, in Washington, D.C.
2001 ISQOLS Major Awards
Fellow of ISQOLS – Scott
E. Huebner, Michael Frisch, Alice Rossi and Andrew Sharpe
Distinguished ISQOL Research Award: - Ruut
Veenhoven
Award for the Betterment of the Human Condition - Statistics
Sweden
2001 ISQOLS Best Dissertation Award and Honorable Mentions – Eunkook M. Suh (winner), Whitney Boling, Janet Davis Neal, Jiyeon Park, Nan-Sook Park
BREIF REPORTS ON SOCIAL INDICATORS AND SOCIAL REPORTING:
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF THE EUROBARAMETER
Abbott L. Ferriss reports on the autumn 2000 survey of the 15 member states
of the European Commission, which states that 83 percent of the surveyed population
is satisfied life in general.
NEW ZEALAND LAUNCHES SIX-CITY SOCIAL INDICATOR
MONITORING
Abbott L. Ferriss reports on the QOL assessment of six New Zealand cities, in
a report entitled Quality of Life in New Zealand’s Six Largest Cities,
which is available online at www.bigcities.govt.nz.
GLEANING THE BENEFITS
OF LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS: EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND BLACK-WHITE INEQUALITY
IN THE UNITED STATES –
Abbott L. Ferriss summarizes the results
of Blacks’ educational and labor force attainment seven to twelve years after
high school in a monograph recently released by the National Center for Education
Statistics.
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