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Annual Review of Sociology, 1983
This paper reviews the development of the field of social indicators from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Three classes of social indicators are identified: normative welfare indicators, which focus on direct measures of welfare and are subject to the interpretation that if they change in the right direction while other things remain equal ...
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This paper reviews the development of the field of social indicators from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Three classes of social indicators are identified: normative welfare indicators, which focus on direct measures of welfare and are subject to the interpretation that if they change in the right direction while other things remain equal ...
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Australian Economic Review, 1976
This article was prepared by Helen Owens of the Institute research staff.Until the mid‐1960's it was generally accepted that gross national product provided not only a measure of economic performance but also a useful overall indicator of some aspects of human welfare.
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This article was prepared by Helen Owens of the Institute research staff.Until the mid‐1960's it was generally accepted that gross national product provided not only a measure of economic performance but also a useful overall indicator of some aspects of human welfare.
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Social Indicators and Social Reporting
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1978Doubts about the easy equation of economic growth and social progress led, in the 1960s, to a renewed interest in social measurement and to the birth of the "social indicators movement." Social Indicators, 1976, a product of that interest, can be read as both a report on social conditions and trends in the United States and a progress report on social ...
Robert Parke, David Seidman
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Social indicators and social reporting
Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1994The present integration and future enlargement of the European Union creates a new demand for comparative social statistics, particularly on general living conditions in member countries, as well as their development. The Maastricht Agreement as well as the two white papers on European Social Policy, on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment ...
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Social indicators detect the most relevant aspects of the life of a country and the interdependence of different sectors and different areas. In general, an indicator is configured as a measure of the level, trend, and distribution of an aspect of living conditions that are crucial for well-being.
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Social indicators and social management
Social Indicators Research, 1984The social indicators movement, which has attained world-wide significance, is based on awareness of the increasing necessity for a conscious regulation of social processes, as well as on the successful utilization of the social sciences. Both of these processes depend on: the character of the social order in the different countries, conceptions of the
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Social indicators and social accounts
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1969Abstract This paper defines “social indicators” as statistics which have two denning characteristics. They are, first, measures of direct normative interest; that is, what the economist would call measures of “welfare” and “illfare”. Most existing government statistics are not of this type, because a large proportion of existing statistics are ...
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Critical appraisal of social indicators
Evaluation and Program Planning, 1979Cochran’s (1979) beginning of a critical appraisal of social indicators deserves attention. Social processes and individual satisfaction are extremely difficult to conceptualize, let alone measure and summarize satisfactorily. Yet, Western societies are eager to obtain and use whatever data seem relevant to public policy and individual decision making.
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SOCIAL INDICATORS: SOCIAL INDICATORS: SOME POSSIBLE FUTURES
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1971R. A. Bauer, D. S. Shoup
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