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Issues in the Measurement of ‘Community Need’
Author(s) -
HamiltonSmith Elery
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1975.tb01243.x
Subject(s) - normative , project commissioning , publishing , sociology , psychology , management science , computer science , public relations , political science , engineering , law
It is suggested that the concept of ‘need’ is not amenable to direct measurement, but that four dimensions—normative, attitudinal, behavioural and comparative—may be quantified. In practice it is necessary to consider all four dimensions.