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Social Indicators Research
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 2/2010

01.04.2010

Wants, Needs and Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Thailand and Bangladesh

verfasst von: Laura Camfield, Monica Guillen-Royo

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 2/2010

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Abstract

Within international development greater income is assumed to lead to greater need fulfilment, which increases subjective wellbeing. The Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC Research Group’s dataset provides an opportunity to test these relationships using measures of income, expenditure, perceived and ‘objective’ need satisfaction and subjective wellbeing collected in Bangladesh and Thailand. The paper demonstrates that firstly, location and socio-economic status are related to both what people say they need, and the extent to which they feel they have satisfied these needs; secondly, there is a close correlation between objective and subjective need satisfaction, indicating that people’s perceptions of need satisfaction are accurate; and thirdly, there is a significant positive relationship between expenditure on basic need fulfilment and subjective and objective need satisfaction.
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1
See Graham and Pettinatto (2002), Fafchamps and Forhad (2003), and Kingdon and Knight (2004) for examples from developing countries.
 
4
Ryan and Deci’s group have tested their ‘Self-determination Theory’ using quantitative methods in North America, Europe, the former Eastern bloc and South-east Asia (see http://​www.​psych.​rochester.​edu/​SDT/​index.​html).
 
5
‘Living conditions’ comprise ‘quality of life’ and ‘living standards’ (Allardt 1975).
 
6
See Taylor and Brown (1988) and Gilbert et al. (1998) for psychological explanations of this process.
 
7
A second paper using the same sample (Guillen-Royo et al. 2009) found equally robust results from a single composite indicator of needs deprivation (INDI).
 
8
‘Do not have’ was included as a further response option but this was not included in calculating mean scores or weighting.
 
9
Basic House and Home has the same items as House and Home, but omits the four items that form part of the Luxuries factor.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Wants, Needs and Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Thailand and Bangladesh
verfasst von
Laura Camfield
Monica Guillen-Royo
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2010
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9477-y

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