A Quarterly Review of Social Reports and Research
on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life.
News included of Working Group 6 on Social Indicators and Social Reporting
of the International Sociological Association.
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Winter, February 2005, Number 81
SOCIAL REPORTS and TRENDS:
The World’s Best Country by Laza Kekic: A Critique
The feature article of this issue is a discussion of a new Quality of Life Index developed by Laza Kekic of The Economist Intelligence Unit. The Kekic Index was used to rank 111 countries and the results recently were published in The Economist. Bob Cummins and several members of the International Well-Being Group engaged in a discussion of the Kekic Index, which is summarized in this issue.
Response to RA Cummins et al
Laza Kekic's response to the Cummins' critique.
The Program of the Delmenhorst, Germany Workshop on Europe and North America – Societies in Contrast, March 6-8, 2005
The schedule of times and events at this workshop.
Europe and North America - Societies in Contrast: A workshop report
Rabea Krätschmer-Hahn and Wolfgang Glatzer recap the highlights of the conference.
Claiming our Future – Next Steps for Quality of Life Research
Wolfgang Glatzer discusses his ideas on the integration, consolidation and dissemination of our knowledge in regards to
the future success of QoL-research..
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Socioeconomic Coding of U.S. Occupations
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