Application of the Human Well-Being Index to Sensitive Population Divisions: a Children’s Well-Being Index Development

Presenting a 4-Item Spiritual Well-Being Index (4-ISWBI)

Spiritual well-being is perceived to be reflected in the quality of relationships that people have in four areas, namely with God, others, nature, and self. Many spiritual well-being questionnaires exist, but not many provide an adequate assessment of these four relationships. As part of a survey of parental perceptions of holistic early childhood education in kindergartens in Hong Kong, 1383 p...

Measuring Well-being Inequality with a Multidimensional Gini Index

Individual well-being is inherently a multidimensional concept. Any attempt to measure inequality of well-being should take this multidimensionality explicitly into account. In this paper we propose to measure well-being inequality by a multidimensional generalization of the Gini coe¢ cient. We follow a normative procedure and derive two Gini indices of well-being inequality from their underlyi...

Structural Changes and the Index of Economic Well-being: Empirical Evidence from the Iranian Economy

It is a well-established empirical fact that economic growth and development brings about major changes in sectorial output, employment, and consumption structure. In the context of economic development discussion, structural change refers to the change in key components of macroeconomic indicators, including national production and expenditure, exports and imports, population, and the sectoria...

Developing an index of children’s subjective well-being in England

Understanding Human Well - being