GIS and the Social Sciences by Ballas Dimitris; Clarke Graham; Franklin Rachel S

Author:Ballas, Dimitris; Clarke, Graham; Franklin, Rachel S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

Figure 6.10 Simulated percentage earning over £150,000, Edinburgh, UK: quintiles

Source: Campbell and Ballas (2013)

Another application area that relates to adding a geographical dimension to debates around the importance of measuring quality of life is where spatial microsimulation has been used to estimate personal happiness and quantify and estimate its value for different types of individuals, living in different areas. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen points out:

A person who has had a life of misfortune, with very little opportunities, and rather little hope, may be more easily reconciled to deprivations than others reared in more fortunate and affluent circumstances. The metric of happiness may, therefore, distort the extent of deprivation in a specific and biased way.

(Sen, 1987: 45)

Table 6.9 Measuring subjective well-being in the BHPS: the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) set of questions as they appear on the BHPS questionnaire

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