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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Quality_in_the_Municipality_of_H%F6gsby
Life Quality in the Municipality
of Hoegsby, Sweden,
at Wikipedia
Quality of Life at Wikipiedia
Life Quality index
at
Wikipiedia
List of countries by Human Development Index
at Wikipedia
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=quality+of+life
Life quality counties at Google
Llife quality index at Google
Life quality index 2009 at Google
Life quality list at Google
Life quality factors at Google
Life quality in
the world at Google
Life quality project
at Google
Many other Life Quality lists at Google
Wisp list social indicators ranking at
Google
The
WISP list
The WISP, that is to say the
Weighted Index of Social Progress,
as established by Dr. Richard J. Estes,
Professor of Social Work, his co-workers,
and the students at the
during more than 10 years until about 2003,
has been much discussed and the object of
much controversy, of course, but still remains,
among all the attempts made independently by
many different schools and institutions in many
different countries, probably the most complete
and well-balanced one according to a large
number of experts in that field, worldwide.
In other words, there is definitely a large consensus
concerning this matter, as required by the readers of
the Special4u site about the reliability of this WISP work.
See examples of part of the study and controversy at:
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=2101
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article642788.ece?service=print
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article642788.ece
http://www.abelard.org/briefings/quality_of_life.htm
Penn School of Social Policy &
Practice From Google
Formerly the
Penn SP2 offers graduate programs in Social Work, Social Welfare,
Social Policy and Nonprofit…
www.sp2.upenn.edu
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About
the WISP list
In AftenPosten, Oslo,
Norway
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article642788.ece
By Jonathan Thisdall, Aftenposten, English Web Desk.
and comparing the quality of life around the world,
but now has been
left behind by its Scandinavian neighbours,
largely due to a
relative lack of social equality.
The good news is
that
newspaper
Dagsavisen reports.
"
There is very
little difference between the top countries,
and one should
remember that when you are on top
of the list, there
is only one direction to go",
Professor Richard
Estes at the
told Dagsavisen.
Estes is the man
behind the international index WISP
which measures the
quality of life in 163 nations
using 40 different
social indicators.
The WISP study for
the 1990s has just been published,
with
just ahead of
Scandinavian way
of life, with Nordic neighbours
and the central European
nations following after.
The
ended up in 27th
place, after all existing European Union
nations and
several EU applicants.
"A country
can have a high GNP
but at the same time
an unjust
distribution of resources and much poverty.
The
a country can have
large segments of its population
lacking
satisfactory health care, education,
and housing or food,"
Estes said.
"WISP
measures human quality
of life and well-being.
GNP
examines only economic factors.
Even economists
dislike it when countries are ranked
according to GNP.
WISP takes other factors into account,
such as lifespan, general health
levels, working conditions,
access
to nature, quality
leisure time, democracy and
political
participation," Estes
said.
from top positions
is due to its neighbour’s better
emphasis on equality of status.
9th of
October 2003.
"The WISP study for the
1990s has just been published,
with
just ahead of
Scandinavian way
of life, with Nordic neighbours
and the central
European nations following after,
measures the
quality of life in 163 nations
using 40 different
social indicators.
Apparently Swedes
and Danes are the most
content people on
earth about their quality of life.
This is just a
short article noting that
on 27th
place and
nations came
bottom of the study.”
The
final “WISP List”,
by Professor Dr. Richard J. Estes,
at Yahoo, at Google,
his collaborators
and students, at the
There are 1, 2, or
more countries on a same final ranking,
with just a little
difference of total final points,
but different
scores on other important ranking criteria,
giving them
altogether these positions on the list:
1 Denmark 107 points at Special4u in English
and at Wiki in many languages,
1 Sweden 107 points at Wiki in many languages,
3 Norway 104 points at Wiki in many languages,
5 Finland 101 points at Wiki in many languages…
You can Google or check
each country of the list
at for exemple Wikipedia,
5 Luxembourg 100
5 Germany 100
5
8
8
10 Belgium 97
11 UK 96
11 Spain 96
13 Netherlands 95
14 France 94
14 Ireland 94
16 Switzerland 93
16
18
18
20
20
22
22
24 Czech Rep 88
25 Slovak Rep 87
26 Canada
86
27 Slovenia 85
27 USA
85
27
34
34
37
38
39
40
41
41
43
43
45
46
47
47
49
49
49
52
53
53
55
56 Kyrgyz Rep 61
58
58
58
61 Dominican Rep
59
61
61
61
70
71
71
73
73
73
73
73
78
78 Uzbekistan 52
78 Lebanon 52
81 Paraguay 51
82 Tajikistan 50
82 Kuwait 50
84 Philippines 49
84
84
84
88
88
90 Lybia 46
90 Iran 46
92 Indonesia 45
93 Barhain 44
93 Botswana 44
115 Oman 29
116 Iraq 28
116 Cambodia 28
116 Gabon 28
119 Ghana 26
120 Zimbabwe 24
121 Pakistan 23
121 Haiti 23
123
134
137 Bhutan 13
137 Mali 13
137 Sudan 13
137 Afghanistan 13
137 Gambia 13
141 Mauretania 12
141
141
141 Cote d’ Ivoire
12
141 Malawi 9
146 Yemen 8
147 Uganda 7
148 Guinea Bissau 5
International Quality of Life
Index.
From:
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=838
There have been
several attempts at this –
Richard Estes'
Index of Social Progress
being probably the most advanced.
But most attempts
to date have been biased towards
economic rather
than ecological considerations, and have
omitted people's own
assessments of their well-being.
Besides those aims
outlined above (click on link above),
the aims of this
work are:
to encourage
people to consider and evaluate factors
making for overall
quality of life;
to encourage
leaders and others to take into account
the effects of
their actions on quality of life;
to encourage the
creation of human scale societies
and aspiration
towards non-material values;
and to publicise
the best work in this field.
Some more Links related with
Quality of Life:
Copenhagen Consensus at Wikipedia
http://www.itu.int/newsarchive/press_releases/2003/30.html
at Google 2007
Children's
well-being in
The UNICEF has surveyed the well-being of children
in 21
industrialised countries.
Here is the full
ranking 2007:
1. The
Netherlands 2. Sweden
in a close lead with a gap to nr 3 and 4.
Clearly nr
and
in Subjective well-being, and a poor one in Family
and peer relationships, suggesting beyond
any
statiscal
doubt, deeper
psycho-social distortions,
a rather similar situation as in
Denmark shows a more even scoring in all
fields,
but not in subjectivity.
material conditions than
and
giving altogether a
win.
See ranking: The lesser points in
dissatisfaction,
the higher position in the comparative
international
ranking, at the opposite of the Wisp list
above.
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
These 2 last worst
results, opening for speculations
about the “why?”, suggesting a distortion based on
language, the
survey being conducted in English in
anglophone
countries by non-English natives,
and the answers
being too negatively extensive.
Explanation not
confirmed by the results of
perhaps because of
the large French speaking minority,
and because
“international
subconsciousness”?
Biasing by UNICEF
non-wasp survey staff unconsciously
“negativist”
towards US and
is also thinkable,
however difficult to grasp.
Last possibility
being that it can be just like that,
by coincidence,
though improbable. Or could be a flaw
somewhere?
Compare this international UNICEF
“Kids’ well-being” list from 2007
to the american WISP list above
from the 1990’s to 2003.
Global Ideas Bank Quality of Life
This chapter explores the best ways of measuring quality of life, and
publishes some of the
entries received by the Institute for Social Inventions in response to
its competition on this
theme.
The standard of living is improving, at least in the developed
countries. But the quality of
life does not necessarily improve at the same time. Are people happier,
more fulfilled, more
creative, more able to develop their potential? Are their relationships,
work and leisure as
satisfying? Do they find their neighbourhood and environment as pleasant
to live in? Is there
a supportive network of family, friends and
neighbours to help in old age or with childcare?
Social Indicators Research and other journals have detailed the work on
this theme since
the early '70s, but how would you set about measuring quality of life,
as opposed to the
standard of living?
These were the main questions posed by the Institute's competition,
which accepted entries
in any one or more of the following five categories (and the Institute
intends to continue
publicising material received in these categories):
(1) Idiosyncratic Personal Quality of Life Index if you had to design a
questionnaire that
you could fill in once a year, to ascertain from the resulting score to
what extent your own
personal quality of life had gone up or down, what would it consist of?
The aim here is to
broaden the perspective of social scientists who consider these issues.
For instance, some
people might want to assess how close they have been to nature, others
to what extent
their spiritual needs have been met or how much they have laughed of
late - the questions
can be ones that are fitted to you alone.
(2) Individual Quality of Life Index. As above, but the questionnaire
should be applicable
to anyone - for instance, a country's cultural differences could be
allowed for by getting
respondents to indicate what importance they attach to each question.
(3) Quality of Relationships Index. There may be overlap here with the
Individual Index,
but the only factor this would measure is the quality of relationships
with family, lovers,
neighbours, work colleagues and friends.
(4) Neighbourhood Quality of Life Index. This could either be one where
inhabitants are
asked to give their subjective assessments, or could be based on more
'objective' exterior
assessment, or it could contain
both these elements. The neighbourhood is defined here as
any area that local people would tend to refer to as their immediate
neighbourhood, in many
areas not exceeding 1,000 inhabitants. Again the Index should be usable
anywhere in the
world. Most such Indexes to date have been from a Western perspective.
The hope here is
to draw up an Index that, if widely adopted, might encourage the
developing world to avoid
harmful imitation of the worst excesses of the lifestyle of affluent
regions. A particularly
satisfactory lifestyle in the third world (assuming basic needs for
food, shelter and security
are met) - such as that of a hill tribe in
be able to score at least as high on a Quality of Life Index as a
materially richer area such as
Brixton in
or both. Ideally it should be one that neighbourhoods would find useful
in defending or developing
their areas, and that they could even perhaps
administer for themselves.
(5) International Quality of Life Index. There have been several attempts
at this –
Richard Estes' Index of Social Progress being probably the most
advanced. But most attempts to
date have been biased towards economic rather than ecological
considerations, and have omitted
people's own assessments of
their well-being.
Besides those aims outlined
above, the aims of this work are: to encourage people to consider and
evaluate factors making for overall quality of life; to encourage
leaders and others to take into
account the effects of their actions on quality of life; to encourage
the creation of human scale
societies and aspiration towards non-material values; and to publicise
the best work in this field.
Criteria
When considering the feasibility of proposals, the Institute bears in
mind the following criteria,
where relevant:
(1) Would the Index proposed be applicable worldwide, without an inbuilt
bias towards higher
ratings for '
(2) Would the Index be reducible to a number, with a resulting league
table, even if supplemented
by fuller 'small' print?
(3) Would it be largely independent of the economic standard of living?
(4) Would it be relatively cheap and simple to administer?
(5) Is it likely to prove credible, useful, and feasible (politically
and in terms of funding)? Can it be
implemented privately without relying on a United Nations agency or
similar?
This chapter describes some of the
ingredients said to make up this quality of life, and some of the
attempts to measure it that have been made to
date, in the hope of inspiring readers to create their
own versions (and to submit them to the
Institute).
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