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Walton, D.; Murray, S. J.; Thomas, J. A. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Two overseas survey-based scales measuring perceived quality of neighbourhood were adapted and replicated in a New Zealand context. An Italian study (Bonaiuto, Fornara, and Bonnes. (2003). "Landscape and Urban Planning," 65, 41-52) measuring Perceived Residential Environmental Quality (PREQ) and an American study (Carp and Carp. (1982).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Correlation, Social Indicators
Soberano, Rawlein G. – 1980
This paper reports on a historico-sociological study describing the current situation of Vietnamese refugees who settled in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area between 1975 and 1980. The paper begins with a historical background section which presents information about the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975, the resulting influx of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Attitudes, Government Role
Coleman, A. Lee; Gabbard, Anne V. – 1974
As part of a larger study aimed at assessing how local people view recent changes and development programs in four Eastern Kentucky counties (Harlan, Perry, Whitley, and Wolfe), a survey on perceived quality of life was conducted. Data were derived from personal interviews with selected local leaders (varying from 21 to 33 interviews per county)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Change Agents, Community Leaders
Azarkh, Emilia Davidovna; Korel, Liudmila Vasilyevna – 1976
Utilizing data derived from a questionnaire survey of the rural population of Novosibirsk province in the USSR, the following hypothesis was tested: the attitude of rural inhabitants toward urban and rural conditions is characterized by a considerable preponderance of positive evaluations of dominant rural conditions and transient urban conditions…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communications, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Stokley, Gary M.; Deseran, Forrest A. – 1977
Data derived from heads of households (50% American Indian, 10% black and 40%white) living in a large (a 25% sample) and a small rural (a 50% sample) Louisiana community were used in conjunction with a pictorial survey of the respondents' houses to evaluate satisfaction with housing in terms of both objective and subjective housing indicators. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, American Indians, Attitudes
Campbell, Angus – 1977
Economic analysis of the quality of life in America must consider personal values and social indicators as well as economic indicators. Although the technical procedures and statistical techniques of economic research are constantly improving, the validity of the research is hampered by problems of definition and measurement. Definition and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Decision Making, Definitions, Economic Climate