MEASURING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN VIETNAM

Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai Author-Email: Mainx@neu.edu.vn
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Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai Author-Email: Mainx@neu.edu.vn: National Economics University, Vietnam

Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 6, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Quality of life has been studied for a long time in the world. However, in Vietnam, studies on quality of life are still scare. In fact, there is no study on measuring this concept. Based on the literature review, Vietnam's development objectives and available data, this paper proposes the methodology of measuring the quality of life in Vietnam, including developing theoretical framework, selecting indicators and composing the quality of life index. Although the quality of life in Vietnam should be considered by the capability approach in relation with the subjective wellbeing approach, the paper only calculates the quality of life index mainly based on objective indicators due to unavailable data of subjective ones. The result shows that the quality of life in Vietnam is at medium level and there are many factors that need to be improved in the future.

Keywords: Quality of Life; Subjective Wellbeing; Composite Index; Normalizing; Weighting; Aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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