RT journal article
T1 From Relevant Capabilities to Relevant Indicators: Defining an Indicator System for Children’s Well-Being in Spain
A1 Domínguez Serrano, Mónica
A1 Moral Espín, Lucía de
A2 Economía General
K1 Capability Approach
K1 Sustaintability of life
K1 System of Indicators
K1 Children's well-being
K1 Spain
AB In the last two decades, studies dealing with the measurement of children’s well-being have proliferated. These studies develop mainly from the need to address the topic from a multidimensional perspective, capable of integrating approaches into a more comprehensive view of reality. In this regard, key issues have been tackled and discussions are still open, such as those on the inclusion of boys and girls as active agents in the definition of their needs, or on the consideration of aspects that affect both present and future needs as part of well-being. The capability theory sets a very interesting theoretical framework within this context. This work will, first of all, try to approach the topic of children’s well-being from such perspective in conjunction with the Life Sustainability proposition. There is, however, no translation of these theoretical contributions to the development of indicators, even though the actual need for them is well acknowledged, given the political and social-action implications of bringing this progress to the realm of the tangible. There are two main reasons for this. First, the scarcity of data about children that could allow the empirical development of valid and reliable measurements in this field. Second, the methodological difficulty of appropriately defining this kind of factors, which are very often linked to subjective and/or intangible aspects, for quantification purposes. Keeping all this in mind, the second part of this work aims at making some progress in this direction and proposes a system of indicators to support what is first analyzed from a conceptual point of view.
PB Springer Link
SN 1874-8988, 1874-897X
YR 2016
FD 2016-08-30
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30659
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30659
LA eng
NO Consejería de Innovación, Empresa, Ciencia y Universidad de la Junta de Andalucía (Spain)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026