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Quality of life in Europe: an illustrative report (summary)
Published:
11 February 2004
Report summary
This summary is based on the illustrative report (EF0354) on quality of life in Europe, which presents the descriptive and analytical components that could be used in the Foundation’s monitoring programme on quality of life. If individual and national quality of life is to be improved in the European Union through evidence based social policy, this will require both descriptive and analytical monitoring programmes. This report begins the task of providing both a descriptive benchmark for the monitoring programme and an analytical understanding of the processes that shape these patterns. A concept report (EF02108) and an information sheet (EF0341) on this topic are also available.