Evolución de la calidad de vida subjetiva en la Unión Europea. Comparación de diferentes metodologías para la construcción de indicadores sintéticos.

  1. Beatriz García-Carro
  2. María-Carmen Sánchez-Sellero
Journal:
Revista de economía mundial

ISSN: 1576-0162

Year of publication: 2022

Issue: 61

Pages: 21-38

Type: Article

DOI: 10.33776/REM.V0I61.5140 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openArias Montano editor

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Abstract

The use of subjective indicators for the study of quality of life is becoming more and more frequent, due to the interest generated by knowing not only what they have but also what citizens feel in different areas of their lives. The objective of this work is to construct subjective synthetic indicators that quantify the quality of life in the different countries of the EU-28, with data from the Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) in the years 2007, 2011 and 2016. It will be constructed a general synthetic indicator using two methodologies, based on clearly different formulations: Mazziota-Pareto analysis (IMP) and standardized principal component analysis (IPCA) in the three periods. The study in several years allows to analyze the evolution of the quality of life in the EU-28 over time. By means of both procedures, similar results are obtained in the classification of countries.

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