An Assessment of Social Welfare in Spain: Territorial Analysis Using a Synthetic Welfare Indicator

Pilar Zarzosa and Noelia Somarriba Arechavala ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 111, issue 1, 23 pages

Abstract: The aim of this paper is measure social welfare in Spanish provinces. To achieve this, we use the distance method P 2 to compose a synthetic indicator of welfare for 2007, the last year for which data are available. The index comprises information on different social indicators from various life domains and enables a classification of Spanish provinces, as well as a study of the impact of each individual indicator in order to determine provincial disparities in social welfare levels. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Social welfare; Social indicators; Synthetic indicator of welfare; Distance method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0005-0

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