2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Measuring the Change in Japan's Quality-of-Life.
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18510115
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social systems engineering/Safety system
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
HASHIMOTO Akihiro University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Professor (10143158)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Quality of life / Time series analysis / Data envelopment analysis / Malmquist index |
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| Research Abstract |
This study presents a DEA/MI (Data Envelopment Analysis/Malmquist Index) analysis of the change in QOL (Quality Of Life) that is defined as the state of social system measured by multiple social-indicators. Applying the DEA/MI to panel social-indicators data of Japan's 47 prefectures for the period 1975-2002, we quantitatively see QOL transition of Japan using "cumulative" frontier shift index in the analysis.
The results show that Japan's QOL has risen up for the bubble economy years (the last half of the 1980s) and dropped down for the succeeding lost-decade (the 1990s). We also find the prefectures responsible to the QOL change. Moreover, the use of lower-bound DEA together with the ordinary (upper-bound) DEA enables QOL evaluation in bad respects as well as in good respects.
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