Measuring the quality of life across countries: a multidimensional analysis
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments x
CHAPTER ONE
AN INTRODUCTION TO INDEX NUMBERS
1.1 Introduction 1
CHAPTER TWO
MEASURING THE QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS COUNTRIES
2.1 Introduction 24
2.2 Attributes of Physical Weil Being 27
2.3 Weighting the Attributes of the Quality of Life Indexes 59
2.4 Rankings of the Quality of Life 67
2.5 Conclusions 68
CHAPTER THREE
NONPARAMETRIC TESTS ON
THE PHYSICAL QUALITY OF LIFE
3.1 Introduction 155
3.2 Attributes of Economic Weil Being 156
3.3 Cluster Analysis of Quality of Life Attributes 157
3.4 The Empirical Results Using Cluster Techniques 160
3.5 Nonparametric Estimates of Attribute Density Functions 164
3.6 The Empirical Results for the Kernel Estimates 165
3.7 Inequality Measures 187
3.8 Empirical Results of the Inequality Measures 192
3.9 Conclusions 193
CHAPTER FOUR
MEASURING ECONOMIC LIBERTY ACROSS COUNTRIES
4.1 Introduction 206
4.2 Attributes of Economic Liberty 210
4.3 Rankings of Economic Liberty 212
4.4 Conclusions 223
CHAPTER FIVE
FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE
5.1 Introduction 261
5.2 Economic Liberty and the Quality of Life 263
REFERENCES 275
TABLES AND FIGURES
Tables
1.1 Diewert s Index Number Tests 19
1.2 Diewert s Multilateral Index Tests 21
2.1 Hedonic Models 70
2.2 Hybrid Hedonic Models 71
2.3 Summary of Rankings of Multidimensional QLI 72
2.4 Final Quality of Life Rankings by Final OBS 76
2.5 Final Quality of Life Rankings by Final Rank 80
A.2.1 Quality of Life Indicators 84
A.2.2 Ranks Based on Quality of Life Attributes 92
A.2.3 Ranks Based on Principal Components of
Quality of Life Attributes 100
A.2.4 Ranks Based on Hedonic Models with RGDP, MLE,
FLE, IMR, and DCC as Hedonic Indices 108
A.2.5 Ranks Based on Hedonic Elasticity Models with
RGDP, MLE, FLE, IMR, and DCC as Hedonic
Indices 120
A.2.6 Ranks Based on Hybrid Hedonic Models with RGDP,
MLE, FLE, IMR, and DCC as Hedonic Indicators 132
A.2.7 Ranks Based on Hybrid Elasticity Models with RGDP,
MLE, FLE, IMR, and DCC as Hedonic Indices 140
A.2.8 Formulas for Constructing Indexes 148
A.2.9 Coefficient Estimates of the Hedonic Models 154
3.1 Euclidian Distance Between Attributes 195
3.2 Correlation of Attributes Across Countries 199
3.3 Summary Statistics of Liberty Attributes 203
3.4 Summary of Various Inequality Measures Across
the Attributes 204
4.1 Rankings Based Upon Mean Ranking Over 15 Liberty
Indicators 224
4.2 Rankings Based Upon 1st 5 Principal Components 228
4.3 Some Liberty Indexes and Their Rankings by Country
Using Hedonic Models to Determine Index Weights 232
4.4 Summary of the 8 Liberty Indexes and Overall Index 236
4.5 Rank Correlation Analysis for the 8 Liberty Indexes
and Overall Index 240
A.4.1 Various Liberty Indicators by Country, 1980 242
A.4.2 Rankings of Various Liberty Indexes 246
A.4.3 Formulas for Constructing Indexes 254
A.4.4 Coefficient Estimates of the Hedonic Models 260
5.1 Overall Rankings of the Quality of Life and of
Economic Liberty 266
5.2 Indexes of Well Being by Country 270
Figures
2.1 Rankings of Quality of Life in Selected Countries 31
2.2 Rankings Based Upon Political Rights for Selected
Countries 35
2.3 Rankings Based Upon Male Life Expectancy for Selected
Countries 39
2.4 Rankings Based Upon Infant Mortality Rate per 1000
Births for Selected Countries 43
2.5 Rankings Based Upon Daily Calorie Consumption for
Selected Countries 47
2.6 Rankings Based Upon Female Literacy Rate for Selected
Countries 51
2.7 Rankings Based Upon Real Gross Domestic Product for
Selected Countries 55
3.1 Tree Diagram of Cluster Membership 161
3.2 Estimated Density Using a Quartic Kernal, Bandwidth =. 5
Population Growth Rate 166
3.3 Real Gross Domestic Product 167
3.4 Male to Female Life Expectancy 168
3.5 Male Life Expectancy 169
3.6 Infant Mortality per 1000 Births 170
3.7 Female to Male Literacy Rate 171
3.8 Male Literacy Rate 172
3.9 Female Minus Male Literacy Rate 173
3.10 Population per Hospital Bed 174
3.11 Population per Physician 175
3.12 Children in Labor Force 176
3.13 Percent of Women in Labor Force 177
3.14 Energy Consumption per Capita 178
3.15 Soldiers per 1000 Civilians 179
3.16 Average Household Size 180
3.17 Length of Roads per Square Mile 181
3.18 Radios per 1000 People 182
3.19 Telephones per Capita 183
3.20 Real Gross Dom. Prod. Growth Rate 184
3.21 Number of Daily Newspapers 185
3.22 Daily Calorie Consumption 186
4.1 Rankings Based Upon Mean Ranking Over 15 Liberty
Indicators for Selected Countries 213
4.2 Rankings Based Upon Some Liberty Indexes and Their
Rankings by Country Using Principal Components to
Determine Index Weight for Selected Countries 218
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