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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Measuring the Change in Japan's Quality-of-Life.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18510115
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Social systems engineering/Safety system
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

HASHIMOTO Akihiro  University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Professor (10143158)

Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
KeywordsQuality of life / Time series analysis / Data envelopment analysis / Malmquist index
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.

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2007

All Journal Article (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Seeing how the Japan ' S quality - of - life has changed .2007

    • Author(s)
      Hashimoto, A .・Sugita, T.・&Haneda, S.
    • Journal Title

      Dept . of Social Systems & Management Discussion Paper Series, Univ . of Tsukuba 1169

      Pages: 1-19

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Seeing how the Japan's quality-of-life has changed2007

    • Author(s)
      Hashimoto, A., Sugita, T. & Haneda, S.
    • Journal Title

      Dept. of Social Systems & Management Discussion Paper Serees, Univ. of Tsukuba 1169

      Pages: 1-19

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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