Aggregated qualitative survey data provide timely, but often imperfect, macroeconomic indicators. Exploiting a unique panel dataset for the UK, which contains matched firm-level responses from both qualitative and quantitative surveys, we find that firms’ responses are influenced not only by their own current and past output and lagged qualitative responses but also by an indicator of aggregate...

The author states that the problem of morality should be one of the main topics of psychological science though modern Russian psychology avoids it for some reasons. The Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences develops the qualitative approach to this problem based on the index combining several statistic indicators. Applying it to modern Russian society provides the opportun...

Although participation and empowerment are hallmarks of the WHO vision of health promotion, it is acknowledged that they are difficult to evaluate. Devising adequate study designs, indicators and methods for the assessment of participation and empowerment should consider the experiences, concerns and constraints of health promotion practitioners. The aim of this study was to investigate health ...

Various decision support methods are used to support the sustainable use of natural resources, but there is little evidence about these methods’ actual performances. In this study, 35 carefully selected papers assessing the sustainable use of natural resources were evaluated. The evaluated papers utilized one of the following methods: optimization, costbenefit analysis (CBA) and monetary valuat...

Measuring performance is a key to optimize business processes. However, many of them cannot be easily measured due to their non-deterministic or qualitative nature. So, to fit in common performance measurement systems (PMS) that normally use numeric parameters (KPIs), artificial and simplifying measures have to be used that are complicated and costly to create and evaluate. Using a literature r...

Although the importance of the external IT environment has been recognized in the literature, there has been little effort to conceptualize the theoretical dimensions of this construct and develop operational indicators to measure it. Our research addresses this gap and seeks to develop the theoretical dimensions and operational measures for external IT environment and empirically validate them...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate among stakeholders the support for the new, dynamic concept of health, as published in 2011: 'Health as the ability to adapt and to self-manage', and to elaborate perceived indicators of health in order to make the concept measurable. DESIGN A mixed methods study: a qualitative first step with interviews and focus groups, followed by a quantitative survey. PARTICIPANTS...

The objective of this paper is to present a framework developed for assisting railway operators into monitoring and controlling the quality of services provided to their passengers. This framework is based on the estimation of 22 indicators, grouped under six criteria, i.e. itinerary accuracy, system safety, cleanness, passenger comfort, servicing, and passenger information. The valuation of th...

Background The importance of the social determinants of health (SDH) and barriers to the access and utilization of healthcare have been widely recognized but not previously studied in the context of universal healthcare coverage (UHC) in Brazil and other developing countries. Objective To evaluate a set of proposed indicators of SDH and barriers to the access and utilization of healthcare - pro...