An Updated Assessment of the OECD’s Quality of Life Index

Nar, Mehmet; Nar, Mehmet Şükrü

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An Updated Assessment of the OECD’s Quality of Life Index

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Nar Mehmet , Nar Mehmet Şükrü

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Indexing for measuring the quality of life have been developed by various countries or organizations. Probably the most comprehensive among these indexes is the Better Life Index, which is developed by OECD. The sampling of the study consists of 34 countries that are the members of OECD, and two countries that are not members of OECD. The data are obtained from the 2017 criteria of OECD life index. In this way, the welfare levels of the countries were compared through the 11 life index criteria defined by OECD. In the study, correlation and regression analyses were performed to reveal the relationships between the OECD life criteria and to measure the degree of these relationships. Thus, it was attempted to demonstrate to what extent the index criteria, particularly the safety criterion, affect a society's quality of life. When we evaluate these analyses in general sense, it was observed that there is a significant and positive relationship between the safety criterion and other parameters. However, a negative relationship between the safety and the satisfaction criteria was found according to another result of the analyses. This is because of the fact that, after a certain threshold level, an individual won't have a positive attitude towards the interventions to the living space.

Metody indeksowania danych w celu zmierzenia poziomu jakości życia są rozwijane przez wiele krajów i organizacji. Prawdopodobnie najbardziej obszernym z tych indeksów jest Better Life Index, opracowany przez OECD. W przypadku tego artykułu dane odnoszą się do 36 krajów, z których 34 należy do OECD, a pochodzą one z OECD Life Index z 2017 r. Poziomy dobrostanu w poszczególnych krajach zestawiono z 11 kryteriami określonymi przez OECD. Przeprowadzono analizy korelacji i regresji, aby wykazać powiązania pomiędzy kryteriami OECD Life i aby określić ich zakres. Umożliwiło to wykazanie w jakim zakresie kryteria indeksowania, w szczególności kryterium bezpieczeństwa, wpływają na jakość życia społecznego. Z ogólnej perspektywy można dostrzec istnienie znaczącego i pozytywnego związku pomiędzy kryterium bezpieczeństwa a innymi parametrami. Jednocześnie zauważono występowanie zależności negatywnej pomiędzy bezpieczeństwem a kryterium zadowolenia. Uwarunkowane jest to istnieniem pewnego poziomu progowego, powyżej którego jednostka nie będzie miała pozytywnego nastawienia do ingerowania w przestrzeń życiową.

Słowa kluczowe

quality of life OECD better life index security social welfare sustainability socio-cultural factors

jakość życia OECD indeks lepszego życia bezpieczeństwo społeczny dobrostan zrównoważoność czynniki

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Lublin University of Technology

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Problemy Ekorozwoju

Rocznik

2019

Tom

Vol. 14, nr 1

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7--18

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 75 poz., fig., tab.

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Nar Mehmet

m.nar@artvin.edu.tr

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Artvin Coruh University, Turkey

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Nar Mehmet Şükrü

mehmet.sukru@artvin.edu.tr

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Artvin Coruh University, Turkey

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Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).

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