Penetration and Growth Rates of Mobile Phones in Developing Countries: An Analytical Classification [0.03%]
发展中国家的移动电话渗透率和增长率:一种分析分类法
Jeffrey James
Jeffrey James
This brief paper uses a simple arithmetic framework to classify and explain the performance of developing countries in closing the absolute digital divide. Four categories are created on the basis of two variables, namely, the penetration a...
Do Measured and Unmeasured Family Factors Bias the Association Between Education and Self-Assessed Health? [0.03%]
家庭测量和未测量因素是否会影响教育与自评健康之间的关系?
Christiaan W S Monden
Christiaan W S Monden
The association between educational attainment and self-assessed health is well established but the mechanisms that explain this association are not fully understood yet. It is likely that part of the association is spurious because (geneti...
Personal Wellbeing Index in a National Cohort of 87,134 Thai Adults [0.03%]
泰国87,134名成人国民队列中的个人幸福感指数
V Yiengprugsawan,S Seubsman,S Khamman et al.
V Yiengprugsawan et al.
Satisfaction with life correlates with other measures of subjective wellbeing and correlates predictably with individual characteristics and overall health. Social indicators and subjective wellbeing measures are necessary to evaluate a soc...
Neal Krause
Neal Krause
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a conceptual model that assesses the following theoretical linkages: (1) people who go to church more often tend to receive more spiritual support from fellow church members (i.e., encouragem...
Child Poverty in Vietnam: Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model [0.03%]
越南的儿童贫困问题:利用特定国情、多维度模型分析提供见解
Keetie Roelen,Franziska Gassmann,Chris de Neubourg
Keetie Roelen
Despite a wide under-prioritization, the issue of child poverty has received increasing attention worldwide over the last decade. The acknowledgement in Vietnam that child-specific poverty measurement is crucial for poverty efforts directed...
Variability of Quality of Life at Small Scales: Addis Ababa, Kirkos Sub-City [0.03%]
小尺度的生活质量差异性:亚的斯亚贝巴市柯克索区案例研究
Elsa Sereke Tesfazghi,J A Martinez,J J Verplanke
Elsa Sereke Tesfazghi
Urban quality of life (QoL) is becoming a subject of urban research mainly for western and Asian countries. Such attention is due to an increasing awareness of the contribution of QoL studies in identifying intervention areas and in monitor...
An Evaluation of the Precision of Measurement of Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scales in a Population Sample [0.03%]
对人口样本中Ryff心理幸福感量表测量精确度的评估
Rosemary A Abbott,George B Ploubidis,Felicia A Huppert et al.
Rosemary A Abbott et al.
The aim of this study is to assess the effective measurement range of Ryff's Psychological Well-being scales (PWB). It applies normal ogive item response theory (IRT) methodology using factor analysis procedures for ordinal data based on a ...
On the (In)Consistency of Citizen and Municipal Level Indicators of Social Capital and Local Government Performance [0.03%]
市民和社会资本指标与地方政府绩效的不一致性分析
Jarl K Kampen
Jarl K Kampen
We study the empirical consistency of survey based (micro level) indicators of social capital and local government performance on the one, and municipality based (aggregate level) measures of these two concepts on the other hand. Knowledge ...
Inequality in Human Development: An Empirical Assessment of 32 Countries [0.03%]
人类发展中的不平等——32国实证评估报告摘要
Michael Grimm,Kenneth Harttgen,Stephan Klasen et al.
Michael Grimm et al.
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quint...
The Impact of Having a Baby on the Level and Content of Women's Well-Being [0.03%]
生育对女性幸福感水平和内容的影响分析
Peter Johannes Hoffenaar,Frank van Balen,Jo Hermanns
Peter Johannes Hoffenaar
The primary objective of this study was to more fully understand the impact of having a baby on women's well-being by attending to both the level and the content of well-being. To cover the judgemental and affective aspects of well-being we...