Building Weighted-Domain Composite Indices of Life Satisfaction with Data Envelopment Analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 257-274

  Guardiola, Jorge ^a   Picazo Tadeo, Andrés J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Domains of life; Life satisfaction indices; Multi Criteria Decision Making; Weightings

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INDICATOR;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84897959136     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0346-3     Document Type: Article

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