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Social indicators and social structure
Journal of Community Psychology, 1983The findings from seven factor analytic studies of social indicators at the subnational level constitute the starting point for this review of the relationship of social indicators, defined as measures of individual and family welfare, and social structure. This definition acknowledges the normative element in social indicators, but it does not specify
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Annual Review of Sociology, 1983
How are we doing with respect not only to our economic level of living but, more generally, the quality of our lives, our well-being? Improving, staying about the same, or deteriorating? Compared to our past? Compared to other countries/societies? And, if improving, are the improvements shared throughout the society or only among some of us?
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How are we doing with respect not only to our economic level of living but, more generally, the quality of our lives, our well-being? Improving, staying about the same, or deteriorating? Compared to our past? Compared to other countries/societies? And, if improving, are the improvements shared throughout the society or only among some of us?
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Social Indicators of Deception
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2012Objective: This study addresses a practical homeland security issue of considerable current concern: In a situation in which the opportunity exists to question or interview concurrently two or more suspects, how does one determine truth or deception at a social level?
Driskell, James E. +2 more
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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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Indicators for Social Inclusion
Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP), 2002The European Union adopted in December 2001 a set of common indicators for social inclusion. This paper describes the background to the adoption of the indicators, and the work undertaken as part of the Belgian Presidency. It sets out principles for the construction of social indicators for this purpose, emphasising their role as performance indicators:
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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 Religious Indicators
Review of Religious Research, 1973Building on the work of the United Methodist Task Force on Religious Indicators, this paper reviews developments in the field of social indicators and makes some suggestions for religion. In the area of social indicators, brief mention is made of the work of NASA, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science ...
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Computational Social Indicators
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017Many professional organizations produce regular reports of social indicators to monitor social progress. Despite their reasonable results and societal value, early efforts on social indicator computing suffer from three problems: 1) labor-intensive data gathering, 2) insufficient data, and 3) expert-relied data fusion.
Fuli Feng +4 more
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Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2016
This article provides the results of the Regional Social Innovation Index (RESINDEX), a conceptual and empirical model that explores indicators of social innovation at organizational and regional level. The RESINDEX model links absorptive capacity of knowledge and social innovation in four types of key regional agents: profit and non-profit ...
Alfonso Unceta +2 more
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This article provides the results of the Regional Social Innovation Index (RESINDEX), a conceptual and empirical model that explores indicators of social innovation at organizational and regional level. The RESINDEX model links absorptive capacity of knowledge and social innovation in four types of key regional agents: profit and non-profit ...
Alfonso Unceta +2 more
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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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