Data Reduction in Socio-Economic Studies

Socio-Economic Studies on Suicide: A Survey

In this article, we review economic theories and empirical studies on the socioeconomic aspects of suicide. Through our survey, we would like to emphasize the importance of studying suicide by employing a “rational” approach that complements the medical perspective on suicide, which assumes suicide to be the result of “irrational” behavior arising from mental illnesses such as depression and ot...

Rectangular Hierarchical Cartograms for Socio-Economic Data

We present rectangular hierarchical cartograms for mapping socio-economic data. These density-normalising cartograms size spatial units by population, increasing the ease with which data for densely populated areas can be visually resolved compared to more conventional cartographic projections. Their hierarchical nature enables the study of spatial granularity in spatial hierarchies, hierarchic...

Socio-economic Vitality in the Prophetic Behavior

The socio-economic vitality of the prophetic era promoted the society and created the potential to solve socio-economic problems. The main purpose of this article is to identify the factors that regenerate socio-economic vitality in the prophetic period. The paradigm or model of this research is derived from the method of Strauss and Corbin's Grounded Theory. Therefore, based on definition of s...

Survey-based socio-economic data from slums in Bangalore, India

In 2010, an estimated 860 million people were living in slums worldwide, with around 60 million added to the slum population between 2000 and 2010. In 2011, 200 million people in urban Indian households were considered to live in slums. In order to address and create slum development programmes and poverty alleviation methods, it is necessary to understand the needs of these communities. Theref...

Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems