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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
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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 School of Social Work,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA,
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
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Penn SP2 offers graduate programs in Social Work,
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About the WISP list
In AftenPosten, Oslo, Norway
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article642788.ece
Saturday July 17 2004. First published 8 Oct 2003.
By Jonathan Thisdall, Aftenposten, English Web Desk.
Sweden and Denmark top in quality of life.
Norway has been the proud winner of surveys studying
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 Norway was a close third,
newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
"Norway has always been among the top five countries.
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 University of
Pennsylvania 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 Sweden and Denmark sharing first place,
just ahead of Norway - a sweeping 'victory' for the
Scandinavian way of life, with Nordic neighbours Finland
and the central European nations following after.
The USA, which has a higher GNP (Gross National Product),
ended up in 27th place, after all existing European Union
nations and several EU applicants.
Afghanistan and nine African nations came bottom of the study.
"A country can have a high GNP but at the same time
an unjust distribution of resources and much poverty.
The USA is an example of this. Despite a high GNP
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. Norway's decline
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 Sweden and Denmark sharing first place,
just ahead of Norway - a sweeping victory for the
Scandinavian way of life, with Nordic neighbours Finland
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 USA ends up
on 27th place and Afghanistan and nine African
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
School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA:
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…
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5 Luxembourg 100
5 Germany 100
5 Austria 100
8 Iceland 98
8 Italy 98
10 Belgium 97
11 UK 96
11 Spain 96
13 Netherlands 95
14 France 94
14 Ireland 94
16 Switzerland 93
16 New Zealand 93
18 Japan 91
18 Hungary 91
20 Portugal 90
20 Greece 90
22 Australia 89
22 Bulgaria 89
24 Czech Rep 88
25 Slovak Rep 87
26 Canada 86
27 Slovenia 85
27 USA 85
27 Poland 85
34 Romania 77
34 Latvia 77
37 Yugoslavia 76
38 Chile 75
39 Lithuania 74
40 Israel 72
41 South Korea 71
41 Ukraine 71
43 Croatia 70
43 Cyprus 70
45 Argentina 69
46 Costa Rica 68
47 Russia 67
47 Moldova 67
49 Cuba 65
49 Armenia 65
49 Albania 65
52 Singapore 64
53 Macedonia 63
53 Georgia 63
55 Panama 62
56 Kyrgyz Rep 61
58 Mexico 60
58 Ecuador 60
58 Azerbaijan 60
61 Dominican Rep 59
61 Jamaica 59
61 Venezuela 59
61 Kazakhstan 59
70 Guyana 55
71 Thailand 54
71 Turkmenistan 54
73 Brazil 53
73 Sri Lanka 53
73 Colombia 53
73 El Salvador 53
73 Peru 53
78 South Africa 52
78 Uzbekistan 52
78 Lebanon 52
81 Paraguay 51
82 Tajikistan 50
82 Kuwait 50
84 Philippines 49
84 Viet Nam 49
84 Malaysia 49
84 Suriname 49
88 Egypt 48
88 Turkey 48
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 Congo Rep 22
134 Togo 14
137 Bhutan 13
137 Mali 13
137 Sudan 13
137 Afghanistan 13
137 Gambia 13
141 Mauretania 12
141 Kenya 12
141 Djibouti 12
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 to 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 Europe and North America
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 1 in Material well-being, Health & Safety,
and Behaviours & Risks, Sweden makes a fair score
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 Finland.
Denmark shows a more even scoring in all fields,
but not in subjectivity.
Netherlands’ kids having comparatively not so good
material conditions than Sweden, Denmark,
and Finland, but the best subjectivity in the world
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. Spain
6. Switzerland
7. Norway
8. Italy
9. Irish Republic
10. Belgium
11. Germany
12. Canada
13. Greece
14. Poland
15. Czech Republic
16. France
17. Portugal
18. Austria
19. Hungary
20. United States of America
21. United Kingdom
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 Canada,
perhaps because of the large French speaking minority,
and because Canada is more “positive” in an
“international subconsciousness”?
Biasing by UNICEF non-wasp survey staff unconsciously
“negativist” towards US and UK “wasp big brothers”
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
28 jan 2006
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 Thailand or a village in Kashmir's Ladakh - might then
be able to score at least as high on a Quality of Life Index as a materially richer area such as
Brixton in London or Easterhouse in Glasgow. The Index can measure negative or positive factors
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 'First World' countries?
(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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