This site contains references to different Bibliographic Resources

Book Series

• Social Indicators Research Book Series
• Comparative Charting of Social Change

Books

• QOL and Social-Personality/Developmental/Motivation Psychology/Social Psychology
• QOL and Social Theory/Political Psychology/Economic Psychology
• QOL and Community Development/Urban Planning/Rural Sociology
• QOL and Health/Medicine/Pharmaeconomics/Public Health
• QOL and Gerontology
• QOL and Management/Organizational Psychology
• QOL and Marketing/Consumer Economics
• QOL and Technology Assessment
• QOL and Media Studies/Communications
• QOL and Sociology/Social Indicators/Social Monitoring/Social Measurement/Developmental Economics
• QOL and Economics/Economic Psychology/Philosophy
• QOL and Environmental Sciences/Environmental Economics/Sustainable Development

Monographs

• Quality of Life Definition and Terminology: A Discussion Document from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1998)
• QOL Research: Classic Articles, Books, Reviews and Other Important Works (1998)
• Quality-of-Life Studies and Social Indicators Research: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works (1984-98)
• A Selected Bibliography on Social Indicators and Quality of Life (1995)
• Bibliography on Social Indicators (1972)
• Bibliography on Social Indicators (1974)
• Social Indicators: An Annotated Bibliography of Current Literature (1970)
• Community Quality-Of-Life Indicators: Best Practices III
• The Science of Community Indicators Research A Certification Manual

Review Articles

• General Review Articles
• Methodological Issues in QOL Research
• Happiness and Subjective Well-Being
• Family Well-Being
• Employee Well-Being/Quality-of-Working Life/Labor/Unemployment
• How to Measure Quality of Life in Diverse Populations
• Economic/Financial Well-Being
• Children and Youth Well-Being
• Leisure Well-Being
• Spiritual Well-Being
• Community Well-Being
• Health-related Quality of Life
• QOL/Social Indicators/Economics/Public Policy
• QOL and Military Issues
• QOL and Gender Issues
• QOL and Social Class Issues
• QOL and Issues Related to Marital Status
• QOL and Age-related Issues
• QOL and Race Issues
• QOL and Disability-related issues
• QOL and Culture-related issues
• QOL and Materialism

Bibliographies

• Bibiliographic Search Engine of Quality-of-Life [ext. link]
• World Database of Happiness: Bibliography of Happiness [ext. link]

Conference Proceedings

• Measures and Goals for the Progress of Societies (2009) [pdf]
• From QOL Conecpts to QOL Performance Measures (2007) [pdf]
• Prospects for Quality of Life in the New Millenium (2006) [pdf]
• Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World (2004) [pdf]]
• Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World [pdf]
• Advances in Community Quality-of-Life Research [pdf]
• How to Measure Quality of Life in Diverse Populations [pdf]
• Developments in Quality-of-Life Studies, Volume 3 (2000)
• Developments in Quality-of-Life Studies, Volume 2 (1998)
• Developments in Quality-of-Life Studies, Volume 1 (1997)
• Developments in Quality-of-Life Studies in Marketing, Volume 5 (1995)
• Developments in Quality-of-Life Studies in Marketing, Volume 4 (1992)
• Quality-of-Life Studies in Marketing and Management (1990)

Quality-of-Life Data and Indicator Systems

• KIDS COUNT (Social Indicators of Children Well-Being) [ext. link]
• European System of Social Indicators [ext. link]
• Community Health Indicators [ext. link]
• National Association of Planning Councils (NAPC) Social Indicators [ext. link]
• Indicators and Data Resources from the Association for Community Health Improvement [ext. link]
• Sustainable Measures [ext. link]
• Fed Stats [ext. link]
• Purchasing Power Profiles and Workforce Density [ext. link]
• Global Reporting Initiative [ext. link]
• The General Social Survey of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) of the University of Chicago [ext. link]
• The International Social Survey Program [ext. link]
• Dataplace from the Fannie Mae Foundation
• U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates [ext. link]
• U.S. Census Bureau Population Projections [ext. link]
• American Community Survey (ACS) [ext. link]
• Fannie Mae Foundation National Housing Survey [PDF]
• Residential Finance Survey (USA) [ext. link]
• Survey of Consumer Finances (USA) [ext. link]
• U.S. Local Area Unemployment Statistics (BLS-LAUS) [ext. link]
• U.S. Local Employment Dynamics (LED) [ext. link]
• U.S. Uniform Crime Reports [ext. link]
• U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) [ext. link]
• Databases (1) from the U.S. Environmental protection Agency (EPA) [ext. link]
• Databases (2) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [ext. link]
• Personal Wellbeing Index [ext. link]
• Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health [ext. link]
• Forum on Child and Family Statistics [ext. link]

Social Indicators/QOL/Sustainable Development Reports

 

• Environmental Information: Status of Federal Data Programs that Support Ecological Indicators[PDF]
• Compendium of Sustainability Indicators [ext. link]
• A Global Directory of Indicator Initiatives from the International Institute for Sustainable Development [ext. link]
• General Social Survey at the National Data Program for the Social Sciences [ext. link]
• International Social Survey Program [ext. link]
• National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) Guidebooks [ext. link]
• OECD World Forum on Key Indicators [ext. link]
• A Community Indicators Report: Selected Stories from the 2004 Community Indicators Conference[pdf]
• Financial Assets and Opportunity Scorecard of the Corporation for Enterprise Development [ext. link]
• The Global Social Change Research Project [ext. link]
• The Happy Planet Index from the New Economics Foundation [ext. link]
• America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2006 [ext. link]

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