What does Quality of Life consist of?

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What do you place most emphasis on for quality of life? (Taken from variables in Economist Q o L Survey and recent u-Switch survey).

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Material Wealth (Net Income)	2
Gender Equality (equality of male and female earnings)	2
Job Security (unemployment rate)	2
Annual Days of Holiday	2
Working Hours	2
Political Freedom	1
Life Expectancy	1
Community Life (measured by church attendance/trade union membership!)	1
Political Stability	1
Tax burden	0
Climate and Geography	0
Cost of Goods	0
Cost of Energy (Household Fuel Bill for Electricity/Gas)	0
Cost of Fuel (Transport)	0
Country's Expenditure on Education as % of GDP	0
Country's expenditure on Health as % of GDP	0
Family Life (Divorce Rate)	0
Retirement Age	0

― Bob Six, Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

Gender Equality (equality of male and female earnings)

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― and what, Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

That guy's a loser

― burt_stanton, Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Hey ladies... I get Marc Loi

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 19 July 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

i "get" 1p3

― and what, Saturday, 19 July 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

wot no health, the not getting any serious diseases kind (not the expenditure on % thing that's in there now) ?

― StanM, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

Is this a LOLeconomics poll? I voted, but I expect a thorough analyses of the results graph, 'n index style!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 20 July 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

well, not sure about that - but Momus discusses why the UK does so badly measured against these quality of life surveys indicators on his blog, and blames the whole 'underpinning Anglo-Saxon philosophy' for the UK's poor showing:

how money doesn't equal happiness, and how life in the Anglosphere sucks (largely because money doesn't equal happiness)

Not that he has oustanding issues with the UK that he might want to declare, oh no

― Bob Six, Sunday, 20 July 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

I selected working hours. The less the better.

― jel --, Sunday, 20 July 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

marc lol

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 20 July 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

not getting diarrhea too many times in one week

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 20 July 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Q of L is basically having bottom tier of Maslow's pyramid taken care of with few wuckers, IMO. Then: on to ennui!

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

sunshine and BJs

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 20 July 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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