Baird C.M. (Ed.) Social Indicators: Statistics, Trends and Policy Development

Nova Science – 2011, 182 pages
ISBN: 1611228417Social indicators measure the quality of life and encompass the whole spectrum of society, including the individual, public and private organisations, municipal, country, regional, national and international systems. This book presents topical research in the study of social indicators from across the globe. Some topics discussed in this compilation include social scientific metrology as the mediator between sociology and socionomy; discretionary time and freely disposable time as social indicators of welfare, poverty and freedoms; and, socioeconomic status and the incidence of illness and social capital.Social Scientific Metrology as the Mediator between Sociology and Socionomy: A Cri De Coeur for the Systemizing of Social. Indicators
Jarl K. Kampen and Hilde TobiDiscretionary Time and Freely Disposable Time: Two New Integrated Indicators of Welfare, Poverty and Freedoms
Marieke Hobbes and Wouter T. de GrootIntroducing the Concept of Functional Time Use (FTU) as a Tool for Measuring the ―Labour Burden‖: A Case Study from the Bolivian Amazon
Lisa RinghoferGenoa Index of Deprivation (GDI): An Index of Material Deprivation for Geographical Areas
E. Ivaldi and A. TestiSocial Capital Indicators and Environmental Policies for Protected Areas
Nikoleta Jones, Marina Proikaki and Panayiotis G. DimitrakopoulosWhat Agro-Processing Can Do to the Social Conditions of Rural Subsistent Farmers: The Case of Milenovisi Association in Ghana
Frank S. Arku, Cynthia Arku and John-Engelbert SeddohExplaining Social Determinants and Health Risk: The Case of Female Sex Workers in Hong Kong and China
Eleanor Holroyd and William W. C. WongEvaluating Environmental and Regional Policies in the European Union through the Use of Environmental Quality Indices
Panagiotis Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios Giannias, Panagiotis Liargovas and Loukas TsironisIs Generalized Trust Useful as the Indicator of Social Capital for Small Area Analysis in Japan?
Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Tsuyoshi Hamano and Akio Koyabu