In Romania, at the level of residential environments there are gaps in terms of quality of life, these are reflected through socio-economic indicators. The degree of poverty is high in rural areas, determined by both economic and demographic, social and cultural factors. It is known that incomes...

Existing well-being measurement initiatives in the region, such as the Quality of Life Indicators in Korea, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index and Quality of Life Index in the Philippines, shed some insight on dimensions that should be considered for measuring well-being beyond GDP in...

Thanks to the large investment of official data producers in OECD countries, measures of subjective well-being have become increasingly robust and meaningful from a policy perspective. In the ten years since the OECD published its Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being, the inclusion of...

Wie organisieren europäische Gesellschaften ihre soziale Zeit? Wie verändert sich mit der Integration Europas und mit der Globalisierung der Alltag? Diese Fragen werden auf einer umfangreichen empirischen Basis in vier Gesellschaften, in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Spanien und Schweden,...