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 ‘Quality of life’ is a term used
to measure well-being. Well-being describes how well people feel
about their environment, and collectively these feelings can be
thought of as quality of life. To assess quality of life, indicators
are used to represent the most important aspects of a person’s
life (called domains), which include, for example, housing, education,
employment and household finances. Indicators are used to measure
complex phenomena (such as quality of life) and can only provide
us with an indication of the actual quality of life. The individual
indicators (and their domains) were categorized into three broad
groups called the social environment, economic environment and physical
environment. The indicator data were compiled, transformed and analyzed
to generate three quality of life maps for each environment, and
then combined in a fourth map to show the overall quality of life.
A fifth map, prepared in partnership with the Canadian
Policy Research Networks’ Quality of Life Indicators Project,
shows various national indicators of quality of life.
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