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Experience In Measurement Of Welfare Components And Their Regional Implications

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  • Margareta Blohm
  • Ingvar Ohlsson

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The paper relates the Swedish discussion and criticism of national accounting statistics, especially GNP, as a measure of welfare. It describes some results of recent Swedish attempts to find practicable measures of welfare components, i.e. the investigations of the Low Income Commission and of the Expert Group on Regional Development Research. In both cases the regional aspects of welfare are emphasized in the paper. The results are presented as a sign of important needs for new methods and new systems of concepts in measuring welfare. The Expert Group has for instance in different ways tried to map and compare the “service structure” of separate parts of Sweden. The Low Income Commission has principally studied the position in Swedish society of low income recipients and has not been working particularly on the illumination of regional differences, but since different types of region are included as a background variable, the investigations also give certain measures of the regional aspects of welfare. In the last part of the paper some of the risks that seem to be difficult to avoid in trying to use welfare measurements are pointed out.

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  • Margareta Blohm & Ingvar Ohlsson, 1973. "Experience In Measurement Of Welfare Components And Their Regional Implications," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 19(2), pages 167-188, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:19:y:1973:i:2:p:167-188
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1973.tb00880.x
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