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Introduction - (Filomena Maggino and Giampaolo Nuvolati).- I. Quality of Life: Methodological Aspects.- 1. Measuring equitable and sustainable wellbeing in Italy - (Enrico Giovannini and Tommaso Rondinella).- 2. A Non-Compensatory Approach for the Measurement of the Quality of Life - (Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto).- 3. From composite indicators to partial orders: evaluating socio-economic phenomena through ordinal data - (Marco Fattore, Filomena Maggino and Emilio Colombo).- 4. Light and shade of multidimensional Indexes: how methodological choices impact on empirical results - (Enrica Chiappero and Nadia von Jacobi Nadia).- II. Quality of Life and Social Change through Italian Official Statistics Social and demographic changes in Italy - (Linda Laura Sabbadini).- 5. Satisfied or dissatisfied? An analysis of the results of "Aspects of Daily Life" Italian survey on households - (Silvia Montecolle and Sante Orsini).- 6. The quality of life measured through the subjective indicators of safety: fear, worry about crime and the risk of criminality - (Maria Giuseppina Muratore, Alessandra Federici and Daria Squillante).- 7. Hours of work and life quality - (Maria Clelia Romano and Daniele Spizzichino).- III. Quality of Life, Public Administration and Civil Society.- 8. Civic evaluation as a tool for analysing and achieving quality of life under the citizen's point of view - (Angelo Tanese and Alessio Terzi).- 9. Security, quality of life and development. A holistic approach - (Maurizio Sajeva).- 10. Democracy and Public Knowledge. An Issue for Social Indicators - (Paolo Parra Saiani).- 11. Flexicurity and Workers Well-Being in Europe: Is Temporary Employment Always Bad? - (Federica Origo and Laura Pagani).- IV. Health Related Quality-of-Life.- 12. From a concept's evolution analysis to the definition of a new methodological evaluation tool of Health Related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) questionnaires - (Francesca Ierardi, Lisa Gnaulati, Stefania Rodella and Elena Ruviglioni).- 13. The use of Health Related Quality of Life measures in Official statistics: the Italian experience - (Lidia Gargiulo, Laura Iannucci and Alessandra Tinto).- 14. Individual and family quality of life in intellectual disability: a challenging relationship - (Marco Bertelli, Annamaria Bianco, Daniela Scuticchio and Ivan Brown).


About the Author: Filomena Maggino is professor of Social Statistics at the University of Florence (Italy) and chief of the Laboratory of Statistics for Research in Social and Educational field. In the field of statistics applied to social research, her twenty-year research covers mainly data (i) production (with particular reference to subjective data assessment), (ii) analysis (with particular reference to multivariate analysis, scaling models and composite indicator construction), and presentation and dissemination (with particular reference to defining a model aimed at assessing the quality of communication in statistics). Her research interests aim at seeing these topics in the perspective of quality of life assessment. Her involvement in ISQOLS is decennial (member from 2000, board member from 2001 and VP of Academic Affair from 2004 and current President-Elect) and outstanding (chair and organizer of the IX Conference in Florence, ISQOLS reference member for the agreement with the OECD Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, in which ISQOLS is Associate Organization). She is member of several international associations, many scientific journals' editorial board, scientific committees and session organizer/chair of numerous international conferences. She is involved in many international and national initiatives, roundtables, and training courses related to the movement on "Beyond GDP". She is co-founder and president of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (Associazione Italiana per gli Studi sulla Qualità della Vita - AIQUAV). - Professor of Statistics applied to Social Research at the University of Florence - Head of the Laboratory of Statistics for Research in Social and Educational field (Lab-StaRSE) - President of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV) - President Elect of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) - Component of the OECD Global Project Research Network on Measuring the Progress - Component of the Scientific Committee for the Measurement of Wellbeing (Commissione scientifica per la misura del benessere) established at Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) on April 2011 - Cooperating with the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) on quality-of-life and wellbeing issues - Member of several international associations, many scientific journals' editorial board, scientific committees and session organizer/chair of numerous international conferences. - Author of many publications on methodological issues concerning mainly indicators construction and subjective data assessment. Main research interests concern: - data production (with particular reference to subjective data assessment), - data analysis (with particular reference to multivariate analysis, scaling models and composite indicator construction), and - data presentation and dissemination (with particular reference to defining a model aimed at assessing the quality of communication in statistics). Giampaolo Nuvolati is Associate Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) where he teaches Urban Sociology and has developed and coordinated several theoretical studies and empirical research on social indicators and quality of life. He has co-operated to many European research projects oriented to define and to measure living conditions in urban contexts (for example the Project "Urban Indicators" for the EU Committee of the Regions, the Project "Guidebook on Using Indicators for Social Cohesion", for the Council of Europe; the Project "Urban Development Programs, Urban Governance, Social Inclusion & Sustainability" for the EU - DG Research). In 2003-2004, he was member of the Italian Governmental Guarantee Commission on Statistical Information for the Program: "Statistics for Metropolitan Areas, Proposals for an Integrated System" where he studied and compared different approaches for analysing resident and non-resident metropolitan populations. He has developed studies concerning the relationships between spatial and temporal mobility, between services accessibility and quality of life in local communities, between sociology, urban spaces and literature (The flâneur in the city: from Baudelaire to the postomodernists, 2006). He is author of many publications on social indicators and quality of life. He is member of Board of Directors of ISQOLS (The International Society for the Quality-of-Life Studies).


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  • ISBN-13: 9789400793880
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Edition: 2012 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 517 gr
  • ISBN-10: 940079388X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 322
  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research
  • Sub Title: Research and Reflections
  • Width: 156 mm


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