Assessing wellbeing and deprivation in later life: A multidimensional counting approach

Armando Barrientos and Casilda Lasso de la Vega

Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester

Abstract: The paper applies a multidimensional and comparative approach to the assessment of wellbeing and deprivation among a panel of older people in Brazil and South Africa. It develops and justifies a counting approach to rank order wellbeing and deprivation distributions. An application of this approach generates substantive findings on the dynamics of the distribution of wellbeing and deprivation in later life, on stratification, and on the importance of social policy addressing ageing.

Date: 2011
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