Juster / Land Social Accounting Systems

Essays on the State of the Art
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7411-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten, Web PDF

Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art contains essays prepared during a workshop aimed at the development and promulgation of objectives for future work on social accounting, and the making of recommendations to achieve them by evaluating existing demographic and time-based accounting models. The essays describe and evaluate the state of the art of extant empirically based approaches to social accounting. The book opens with an overview chapter that describes the organizations of the Workshop on Social Accounting Systems at which the essays were presented and discussed, the nature of the tasks assigned to authors, and the major themes of workshop discussions. This is followed by separate chapters on time-based social accounting systems and demographic accounting; how subjective social indicators can be related to social accounting systems; and general evaluations of the systems described in the previous chapters. This book will be primarily of interest to social scientists and statisticians concerned with the development and integration of national data systems and with social indicator analyses. They also will be germane to the interests of students of contemporary social change and the quality of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Juster, F. Thomas

Land, Kenneth C

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art;4
3;Copyright Page
;5
4;Table of Content
;6
5;List of Contributors;12
6;Foreword;14
7;Preface;20
8;Acknowledgment;22
9;Chapter 1. Social Accounting Systems: An Overview;26
9.1;INTRODUCTION;26
9.2;THE WORKSHOP ONSOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS;27
9.3;DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONSOF SOCIAL ACCOUNTING;30
9.4;USES OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS;34
9.5;ALTERNATIVE DATA STRATEGIES;38
9.6;CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS;44
9.7;REFERENCES;45
10;Chapter 2. The Theory and Measurement of Weil-Being: A Suggested Framework for Accounting and Analysis;48
10.1;INTRODUCTION;48
10.2;RESOURCES, ACTIVITIES, AND OUTCOMES;53
10.3;FRAMEWORK OF THE ACCOUNTS SYSTEM;67
10.4;EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS;82
10.5;APPENDIX A: THE VALUE ADDED PROBLEM INMEASURING NET SOCIAL OUTPUT;111
10.6;POSTWORKSHOP REFLECTIONS ONLEVEL OF AGGREGATION ISSUES;114
10.7;REFERENCES;117
11;Chapter 3. A Social Production Framework for Resource Accounting;120
11.1;THE APPROACH;120
11.2;THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION CONCEPT;121
11.3;AN ILLUSTRATION OF SOCIAL PRODUCTIONAS A HISTORICAL PROCESS;128
11.4;OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM OF SOCIALCOST ACCOUNTING;132
11.5;CONCLUSIONS;153
11.6;REFERENCES;153
12;Chapter 4. A Behavior Setting Approach to Social Accounts Combining Concepts and Datafrom Ecological Psychology, Economics, and Studies of Time Use;156
12.1;THE CURRENT STATUS OF OUR APPROACH;157
12.2;DERIVATION AND IMPLICATIONS OF A SCALAR MEASURE OF TOTAL INCOME FOR INDIVIDUALS AND POPULATION AGGREGATES;160
12.3;SOCIAL ACCOUNTS FORURBAN-CENTERED REGIONS;165
12.4;BEHAVIOR SETTINGS AS BASIC UNITSIN SOCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR COMPLETE COMMUNITIES;168
12.5;BEHAVIOR MECHANISMS AS A LINK BETWEEN BARKER'S METHOD OF BEHAVIOR SETTING SURVEYS AND THE DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES (DOT) SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING JOBS;178
12.6;THE DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES AND HANDBOOK FOR ANALYZING JOBS (DOT-HAJ) SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING JOBS;184
12.7;DESCRIPTIVE USES OF DOT AND CENSUS VARIABLES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AT UNITED STATES AND SUBNATIONAL LEVELS;188
12.8;ASSIGNING EQUIVALENT DOLLAR VALUES TO BEHAVIOR INPUTS USED IN GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT;199
12.9;ESTIMATING THE VALUES OF BEHAVIOR INPUTS MADE BY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE DES MOINES BEA ECONOMIC AREA;216
12.10;A NOTIONAL LINKAGE OF THE DOT-HAJ SYSTEM WITH THE SRC SURVEY OF TIME USE;224
12.11;PROSPECTS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTS LINKING BARKER'S CONCEPTS WITH PUBLISHED DATA SYSTEMS;229
12.12;SUGGESTIONS FOR DATA DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH;230
12.13;REFERENCES;239
13;Chapter 5. Social Accounts Based on Map, Clock, and Calendar;244
13.1;INTRODUCTION;244
13.2;DIVISIBILITY, PROXIMITY, AND RECURRENCE AS ORGANIZING FEATURES OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD;246
13.3;RECURRENCE AND SURPRISE IN HUMAN ACTIVITIES;248
13.4;HUMAN PHYSICAL COORDINATION;248
13.5;SYSTEMATIC ACCIDENT;250
13.6;GRADUAL VERSUS ABRUPT CHANGE;251
13.7;THE RHYTHMIC STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE;252
13.8;PHYSICAL PRECEDENCE;255
13.9;FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES;255
13.10;A STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND PUBLIC SERVICE ACCOUNTS;257
13.11;ACCOUNTING TACTICS;259
13.12;SOME EXAMPLES;261
13.13;DISCUSSION;264
13.14;REFERENCES;264
14;Chapter 6. Demographic Accounts and the Study of Social Change, With Applications to the Post–World War II United States;266
14.1;THE DEMOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL ACCOUNTING;267
14.2;SOCIAL CHANGE IN A DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK;281
14.3;PROBLEMS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EMPIRICAL DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS FOR THE POST-WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES;302
14.4;CONCLUDING COMMENTS—A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTING;320
14.5;REFERENCES;325
15;Chapter 7. The Relationship of Demographic Accounts to National Income and Product Accounts;332
15.1;INTRODUCTION;332
15.2;DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS AND MODELS;333
15.3;ECONOMIC ACCOUNTS AND MODELS;357
15.4;RELATING THE TWO SETS OF ACCOUNTSAND MODELS;375
15.5;EVALUATION AND COMMENTARY;384
15.6;REFERENCES;398
16;Chapter 8. Subjective Social Indicators, Objective Social Indicators, and Social Accounting Systems;402
16.1;INTRODUCTION;402
16.2;CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT OF PERCEIVED WELL-BEING;405
16.3;SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS;412
16.4;RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE ANDOBJECTIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS;416
16.5;THE FORMATION OF PERCEPTIONS OF WELL-BEING;426
16.6;SOME PROMISING LINES OF FURTHER INQUIRY;437
16.7;SUMMARY;438
16.8;REFERENCES;440
17;Chapter 9. Social Indicators, Social Change, and Social Accounting: Toward More Integrated and Dynamic Models;446
17.1;SOCIAL INDICATORS AND SOCIAL CHANGE:PROMISE AND PROBLEMS;447
17.2;THE GENERAL APPROACH OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTING;449
17.3;TIME-BASED, ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING;453
17.4;DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTING;460
17.5;INTEGRATION AND EXTENSION;465
17.6;POSTWORKSHOP REFLECTIONS;472
17.7;REFERENCES;474
18;Chapter 10. The Conceptual and Empirical Strengths and Limitations of Demographic and Time-Based Accounts;478
18.1;ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS;479
18.2;COMPARISONS OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL ACCOUNTING;493
18.3;REFERENCES;501
19;Subject Index;502
20;STUDIES IN POPULATION;505