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
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Fall, November 2005, Number 84
SOCIAL REPORTS and TRENDS:
Daniel Kahneman and Colleagues on National Well-Being Accounts
Kenneth Land assesses the Kahneman et al. proposal for NWBA. It is a significant day when scholars of the level of Kahnemann and his collaborators take up the banner under which many in the quality-of-life research community have been marching for some time. But the extent to which the contributions of the timebased well-being indices perform better than global life assessment questions, and under what conditions, remains a topic for research.
Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
Some experts believe that measures of subjective wellbeing require additional research and refinement before they should be used in policy decisions, while others believe that the use of these measures is long overdue. Although there are many proposals concerning the basic constituents of well-being, much research is still needed before a fundamental set of indicators can be advanced with certainty.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ISQOLS President’s Message
ISQOLS Exec. Director’s Message
QOL: Towards Quality of Life Improvement – A Conference Report
International Sociological Association (ISA), XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology ‘The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World’ Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006,
Working Group on Social Indicators, WG06, CALL FOR PAPERS
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