Quality of life and its disparities in districts of Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-025-11509-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-025-11509-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-025-11509-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10708-025-11509-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quality of life and its disparities in districts of Slovakia

Original language description

The paper focuses on one of the contemporary social concepts—quality of life—research on which has experienced significant growth in recent decades, including efforts to measure quality of life at the national and local levels. This paper specifically examines the spatial differentiation of quality of life at the district level. While previous research on urban and regional quality of life has often relied on various objective indicators of infrastructure and amenities, this paper takes a different approach by analysing satisfaction with a place as a living environment and its potential for fostering a good life. The combined objective indicators of amenities contribute to the overall quality of a place, which is measured through a single subjective indicator. The quality of life in districts was determined by using codes of quality of life within individual settlements. For the average value of quality of life and the standard deviation in districts, the spatial autocorrelation rate was calculated using Moran’s I. It can be interpreted as meaning that both the average quality of life in individual districts and its variability are distributed rather randomly in space, without forming significant geographical patterns. This conclusion is quite unusual in the context of dependent socioeconomic phenomena, since most phenomena assess a certain degree of spatial dependence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GEOJOURNAL

ISSN

0343-2521

e-ISSN

1572-9893

Volume of the periodical

90

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"258-1"-"258-14"

UT code for WoS article

001581986300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105017771756