Measuring Quality of Life in Spanish Municipalities.
Measuring quality of life in municipalities entails two empirical challenges. First, collecting a set of relevant indicators that can be compared across the municipalities in the sample. Secondly, using an appropriate aggregating tool in order to construct a synthetic index. This paper measures qual...
| Publicado en: | Local Government Studies Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 171 - 198 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=60040247&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 60040247 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03003930 LBQ jtl: Local Government Studies issn: 03003930 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2011 vid: 37 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 60040247 10.1080/03003930.2011.554826 ppf: 171 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 185KB tig: atl: Measuring Quality of Life in Spanish Municipalities. aug: au: Gonzalez, Eduardo Carcaba, Ana Ventura, Juan Garcia, Jesus affil: Department of Business Administration, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain Department of Accounting, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain su: Quality of life Cities & towns Municipal government Empirical research Data analysis Social work research Consumption (Economics) Spain sug: subj: Spain Quality of life Cities & towns Municipal government Empirical research Data analysis Social work research Consumption (Economics) keyword: DEA municipalities VEA welfare ab: Measuring quality of life in municipalities entails two empirical challenges. First, collecting a set of relevant indicators that can be compared across the municipalities in the sample. Secondly, using an appropriate aggregating tool in order to construct a synthetic index. This paper measures quality of life for the largest 237 Spanish municipalities using Value Efficiency Analysis (VEA) to derive comparative scores by combining the information contained in 19 partial indicators. VEA is a refinement of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) that imposes some consistency in the weights of the indicators used to construct the aggregate index. The indicators cover aspects related to consumption, social services, housing, transport, environment, labour market, health, culture and leisure, education and security. The results show that the Northern and Central regions in Spain attain the highest levels of quality of life, while the Southern regions report low living conditions. Education is the variable that requires the largest improvement in low performing municipalities, followed by health and culture facilities, pollution and crime. Population density, growth and ageing seem to relate positively to quality of life. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Local Government Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Local Government Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2011 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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