S.A.Aivazian: Quality of life and living standarts analysis: Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE ...7
INTRODUCTION ...10
В.1. About essence of concept "Quality of Life" ("QoL") ...10
В.2. What for it is necessary and why it is possible to measure quality of life ...13
В.3. About two methodological approaches to an estimation and measuring of quality of life ...15
Conclusions ...16
Chapter 1
BASIC THEORETICAL CONCEPTS OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND EXAMPLES OF
APPROACHES TO ITS MEASURING ...19
1.1. The choice of concepts of quality of life: from answers to what questions it depends? ...19
1.2. The basic theoretical concepts of quality of life ...20
1.3. Methods of quality of life measuring (world experience) ...28
1.4. Analysis of properties of integrated indicators of quality of life (II QoL) ...60
Conclusions ...66
Chapter 2
MACROECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF QOL: MEASURING OF SYNTHETIC
LATENT CATEGORIES ...68
2.1. Integrated components of a category "Quality of Life" and their decomposition ...69
2.2. Requirements to formation of a priori sets of variables for various synthetic categories of quality of life ...78
2.3. Methodology of measuring of synthetic categories of quality of life and methods of multicriterial rating of territories (countries, subjects of the Russian Federation, municipal unions) ...79
2.4. Examples of construction II QoL in inter-country and inter-regional analysis ...105
Conclusions ...123
Chapter 3
MACROECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF QOL IN THE PROBLEMS OF ESTIMATION
THE EFFICIENCY OF A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY ...125
3.1. General logic scheme of use of integrated indicators of quality of live in a problem of estimation of a social and economic policy efficiency ...125
3.2. Parameters of a social-economic policy and institutional developments as determinants of improvement of quality of life of the population (results of inter-country econometric analysis) ...128
3.3. Revealing of key directions of perfection the social and economic policy in the Russian regions ...153
Conclusions ...174
Chapter 4
MICROECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND LIVING
STANDARDS ...178
4.1. Consumption behavior of households and revealing of the type-forming variables (or the determinants) ...178
4.2. Analysis and modeling of distributive relations in a society ...227
4.3. Problems of the information support of quality of life and living standards microeconometric analysis ...283
APPENDICES ...289
Appendices to chapter 2 (A2) ...290
A2.1. Structure and the maintenance of the information included in the WCY ...290
A2.2. A priori and a posteriori sets of partial criteria of a synthetic category "Quality of Life" the inter-country analysis (the source:[WCY, 2009]) ...293
A2.3. The initial and unified statistical data for the inter-country analysis (the source: [WCY, 2009]) ...294
A2.4. Results of realization of the formation procedures a posteriori set of partial criteria QoL on the basis a priori set in inter-country analysis ...298
A2.5. Results of construction of II of QoL and rangings of the countries on the basis of [WCY, 2009] data ...300
A2.6. A priori and a posteriori sets of the partial criteria for each synthetic categorie QoL of the subject of the Russian Federation ...302
A2.7. The initial statistical data for a posteriori sets of indicators (in the natural and unified form) on regions of Russia ...308
A2.8. Values block and summary II each synthetic categorie QoL for the Russian Federations regions ...336
A2.9. Values of single (summary) II QoL and the integrated indicators on each synthetic category for the Russian Federations regions ...344
Appendices to chapter 3 (A3) ...346
A3.1. The table of values of II QoL (y(l) ~ у(4)) and corresponding explanatory variables (x(l) ~ x(17)) for 60 countries and regions ...346
A3.2. Dynamics of the variables-determinants measured in natural units ...350
A3.3. An a priori set of indices of social and economic and Institutional development for the Russian Federation region ...353
A3.4. The initial data for econometric analysis of dependences II QoL from characteristics of a social and economic policy and Institutional development of region ...356
Appendices to chapter 4 (A4) ...381
A4.1. Some auxiliary knowledge on methods and algorithms of statistical processing not quantitative variables ...381
A4.2. Probability of evasion of the household from survey as function of some it characteristics (results of the analysis) ...394
A4.3. Results of the statistical analysis of the mixture-distributions models in frameworks statistically observable range of values of household total expenses ...400
A4.4. Results of the nonparametric analysis of the distribution of Russia population by per capita expenses ...408
REFERENCES ...414
INDEX ...426
