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The author illustrates a method for measuring international openness by bringing forward some examples. The index proposed measures the capacity of countries for a given phenomenon, adjusted for their weight in the phenomena concerned. In this study, the Index is applied to measure the degree of openness to international migration in a number of…
Descriptors: Indexes, Migration, Measurement, Foreign Countries
Sirgy, M. Joseph; Lee, Dong-Jin; Kressmann, Frank – Social Indicators Research, 2006
This paper reports the results of three studies designed to test the nomological validity of a consumer well-being (CWB) measure in relation to personal transportation. The CWB measure was developed guided by the theoretical notion that the CWB in relation to personal transportation vehicles is significantly enhanced when the consumption of the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Transportation, Well Being, Safety
Gunderson, Ronald J.; Ng, Pin T. – Social Indicators Research, 2006
A significant issue existing within the rural economic development literature revolves around the difficulty with sorting out the controversy of the effects of amenity activities on rural economic growth. This problem is due to the different ways amenity attributes are linked to regional economic performance. Numerous researchers utilize principal…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Rural Areas, Rural Economics, Factor Analysis
Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Smith, Ron – Social Indicators Research, 2005
One of the most significant theoretical contributions to welfare analysis across a range of disciplines has been the development of the capabilities framework by Sen and others. Motivated by the claim that freedom should play a key role in social evaluation, the capabilities framework suggests that we consider what it is that people are free to…
Descriptors: Well Being, Program Validation, Psychometrics, Inferences
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Vandivere, Sharon; Redd, Zakia – Social Indicators Research, 2006
In this paper, we conceptualize and develop an index of sociodemographic risk that we hypothesize will be an improvement over the standard poverty measure as a measure of risk for children's development. The poverty line is widely used in government statistics and in research but is also widely acknowledged to have multiple shortcomings. Using…
Descriptors: Poverty, Parent Education, Family Income, Multivariate Analysis
Burchardt, Tania – Social Indicators Research, 2005
One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is related to the satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual's previous experience of…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Reference Groups, Multivariate Analysis, Justice
