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Rethinking the construction of welfare in M exico: Going beyond the economic measures
Author(s) -
MartinezMartinez Oscar A.,
Lombe Margaret,
VazquezRodriguez AnaMaria,
CoronadoGarcia Mauricio
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12202
Subject(s) - welfare , ranking (information retrieval) , social welfare , index (typography) , social capital , position (finance) , economics , human capital , demographic economics , social position , public economics , economic growth , sociology , social change , political science , social science , finance , machine learning , world wide web , computer science , law , market economy
This study utilized a multidimensional measure of social welfare composed of 26 social indicators integrated in nine categories: education, employment and social protection, income, health, housing conditions , subjective wellbeing, social capital, use of technology , and culture and leisure to help understand social welfare in Mexico. We also compared the integrated measure with the Human Development Index. Estimation was performed using theD P 2method. Our analysis indicated that the health and housing conditions categories contributed the most to social welfare across the 32 Mexican States. In relation to the indicators, income and trust in other people were associated with welfare. Further, results on the welfare ranking of Mexican states revealed variations between the two indices ( D P 2and the HDI). Specifically, only four states occupied the same position on both indices, ten recorded different positions onD P 2moving up or down from their levels of social welfare. Implications of observed correlations are presented.