Multidimensional quality-of-life measure with an application to Fortune's best cities

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 263-284

  Zhu, Joe ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Multidimensional; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034754450     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0121(01)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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