The study examines objective indicators associated with quality of life in Ireland. As noted above, these include indicators of environmental quality, income, house prices, health, education and crime. The analysis then moves on to compare these objective indicators with subjective indicators as revealed through the use of a public survey and further qualitative analysis based on focus-group
discussions. The intention, therefore, was to compare the objective measures with peoples perception of these indicators and their own subjective assessment of personal well-being. This comparison is not performed as often as it should be in discussions of quality of life. A factor analysis of subjective indices of quality of life based on public survey data and incorporating measures of income/employment, family status, domestic environment, subjective well-being and planning/infrastructure.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=60
Resource Keywords	QUALITY OF LIFE, FACTOR ANALYSIS, REGIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2004-SD-DS-16-M1
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Environment and Health
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
Limitations on the use of this Resource	Source of data should be fully referenced to authors of the report and EPA.
Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	3
Project Start Date	Wednesday 1st March 2006 (01-03-2006)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Wednesday 1st March 2006 (01-03-2006)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Sunday 1st October 2006 (01-10-2006)
Published on SAFER	Friday 21st March 2008 (21-03-2008)
Date of Last Edit	Wednesday 11th June 2008 at 11:38:05 (11-06-2008)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Tuesday 10th June 2008 at 15:35:16 (10-06-2008)

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Data based on postal returns from Counties Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, South Dublin, Fingal, Meath, Kildare, Wicklow, Leitrim and Roscommon. The first two focus groups were held in Carrick-on-Shannon in Co. Leitrim and in Navan. To compensate for the fact that the survey had drawn its rural sample from Co. Leitrim, an additional focus group was also organised in New Ross in the South-East Region, an area that has experienced some loss of industry and population in recent years.

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