I. Romaniuk, PhD student Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv THE SYSTEM OF STATISTICAL OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE INDICATORS OF MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE

This article examines approaches to defining and measuring quality of life. Each approach to measuring the quality of life contains information that is not contained in the other measures. It describes the economic, subjective and social indicators. The strengths and weaknesses of those indicators are also analyzed.
Keywords: quality of life index; objective indicators; subjective indicators; quality of life; measuring quality of life.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2667.2015/169-4/8

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