Demographic Indices as Social Indicators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7761669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Anson (0000-0002-8150-9428, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-446 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a230433 |
| PMID | 12283801 |
| OpenAlex | W2044511433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
A social indicator is derived from readily available demographic data: population age structures, mortality rates, sex ratios, and children—women ratios (fertility). It is suggested that an indicator based on just two of these variables can be as reliable a measure of the physical quality of life in a population as a multivariable indicator based directly on socioeconomic data. Unlike multivariable indicators, which are expensive to collect, the demographic data are readily available. Their use as social indicators would thus offer a simple, cheap, and effective means of monitoring the standard of living in small, geographically defined populations and in evaluating the effects of policy interventions. The analysis is based on Israeli towns, with use of data from the census of 1983
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The modern rise of population
Residential mobility, migration, and metropolitan change
Population, modernization, and social structure.
Robust Statistics
Applied Mathematical Demography
Measuring the condition of the world's poor
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Basic human needs
Notes on social measurement
Explaining cross-cultural variations in age at marriage and proportions never marrying
Mortality Transition in South and East Asia
Theoretical Population Geography
Mortality and living conditions
The Next Birth and the Labour Market
The Responsiveness of Family Patterns to Economic Change in the United States
Multiple regression in psychological research and practice
The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development
Toward A Restatement of Demographic Transition Theory
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth
Direct and Indirect Measures of Poverty
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 1994 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |