NDLI: Measuring Non-Economic Quality of Life on a Sub-National Level: A Case Study of New Zealand

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Author	Rossouw, Stephanié Pacheco, Gail
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Most research on non-economic quality of life has a national focus and/or uses subjective measures. This paper makes use of a multitude of demographic and geographic variables to construct objective indices of quality of life. This analysis is applied at the sub-national level for New Zealand for the purpose of rating regional areas on their quality of life over the period of 1986–2006. This study also makes a contribution to the current quality of life literature by using a regression technique to remove the impact of income levels and therefore focus on the non-economic component of these quality of life indices. Our results show that Taranaki and Nelson are doing much better in terms of their quality of life, and Bay of Plenty and Waikato much worse than expected, given their levels of regional GDP per capita. These results have important policy implications at the regional council level.
Starting Page	439
Ending Page	454
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13894978
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737780
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-05-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Quality of life Non-economic measures Sub-national inequality Human development index New Zealand Quality of Life Research Philosophy Economics/Management Science Personality and Social Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences

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