Quality of life

A common indicator of Quality of life (QOL) is the Human Development Index
QOL at lower levels can be described in terms of several other characteristics such as housing conditions, cost of life, living conditions (water, sewage, electricity, and internet) as well as qualitative measures of community satisfaction, among others.

Aim of the method/technique	The aim of Human Development Index is to measure the well-being.
Scale – spatial and temporal	National. Estimations are possible at regional and local level.
Brief description	The Human Development Index combines three basic dimensions: Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrolment ratio (with one-third weighting). Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) in United States dollars.
Data requirements	Data on life expectancy, education and literacy rate, primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio and gross domestic product per capita.
Main applications in cropland , grazing land and forests & shrubland regions	---
Strengths and weaknesses	The HDI is not free from certain limitations. It is a crude index, which attempts to catch in one simple number a complex reality about human development and deprivation; The three indicators are not the only indicators of human development. There can be others like infant mortality, nutrition, etc., The HDI measures relative rather than absolute human development so that if all countries improve their HDI value at the same weighted rate, the low Human countries will not get recognition for their improvement

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