When a society's overall deprivation or living standard is assessed in a multi-attribute framework, the following procedure is often used. First, for each attribute, a summary index is constructed to reflect a society's performance in relation to this attribute. Then, an indicator of the overall...

In many instances, individual health outcomes are self-reported on several ordinal scales. The ordinal nature of the data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of inequalities of various distributions of health outcomes in a population. In this paper, we propose and discuss a...

Introduction -- Part 1 The basic analytical framework -- Conceptions of individual well being -- Valuation of functioning bundles and interpersonal comparisons of well being -- Freedom and individual well being -- Freedom A re examination of the concept -- Part 2 Some applications -- Measurement...