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Quality of Life
‘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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Quality of Life Map(s)
- Quality of Life: Economic Environment Index Map | Read about this map
- Quality of Life: Social Environment Index Map | Read about this map
- Quality of Life: Physical Environment Index Map | Read about this map
- Overall Quality of Life Map | Read about this map
- Quality of Life in Canada – A Citizens’ Report Card Map | Read about this map
- Metropolitan Influenced Zones (MIZ) Map | Read about this map
