Synthetic Indicators of Quality of Life: Construction and Utilization for Social-Economic Management and Comparative Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v34i2.401Abstract
Proposed basic concepts and methodology, and described information sources are aimed to construct and use in practice the aggregative quality of life indicators at the level of a region or a country. The methodology exploits factor analysis (with “no training samples” available) and “expert and statistical regression model” (with “training samples” available), and includes a multicriterion scheme.
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Contract #7IP65730), and by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (Projects #02-02- 00166a and #02-05-12005B).
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