Social Indicators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18945183 |
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| Authors | K C Land (0000-0002-9551-7314, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss153 |
| OpenAlex | W4250520486 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Social indicators are statistical time series “used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change” (Ferriss 1988: 601). Examples are unemployment rates, crime rates, estimates of life expectancy, health status indices such as the average number of “healthy” days (or days without activity limitations) in the past month for a specific population, school enrollment rates, average achievement scores on a standardized test, rates of voting in elections, and measures of subjective well‐being such as how satisfied individuals are with life as a whole. In addition to these specific indicators, recent work has led to the development of summary indices that combine a number of specific indicators into composite measures of the quality of life or well‐being for a society as a whole or for specific segments or subunits thereof
Biology · Economic growth · Economics · Health indicator · Life expectancy · Political science · Population · Sociology · Unemployment · Voting · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Gerontology
| Highly cited | No |
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