Social Accounting Systems

Essays on the State of the Art

F. Thomas Juster, Kenneth C Land, F. Thomas Juster, Kenneth C Land

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780123925503
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483274119
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Macroeconomics
• Index: Economics

Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art contains essays prepared during a workshop aimed at the development and promulgation of objectives for future work on social accounting, and the making of recommendations to achieve them by evaluating existing demographic and time-based accounting models. The essays describe and evaluate the state of the art of extant empirically based approaches to social accounting. The book opens with an overview chapter that describes the organizations of the Workshop on Social Accounting Systems at which the essays were presented and discussed, the nature of the tasks assigned to authors, and the major themes of workshop discussions. This is followed by separate chapters on time-based social accounting systems and demographic accounting; how subjective social indicators can be related to social accounting systems; and general evaluations of the systems described in the previous chapters. This book will be primarily of interest to social scientists and statisticians concerned with the development and integration of national data systems and with social indicator analyses. They also will be germane to the interests of students of contemporary social change and the quality of life.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art
• Copyright Page
• Table of Content
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Chapter 1. Social Accounting Systems: An Overview
• Chapter 2. The Theory and Measurement of Weil-Being: A Suggested Framework for Accounting and Analysis
• Chapter 3. A Social Production Framework for Resource Accounting
• Chapter 4. A Behavior Setting Approach to Social Accounts Combining Concepts and Datafrom Ecological Psychology, Economics, and Studies of Time Use
• Chapter 5. Social Accounts Based on Map, Clock, and Calendar
• Chapter 6. Demographic Accounts and the Study of Social Change, With Applications to the Post–World War II United States
• Chapter 7. The Relationship of Demographic Accounts to National Income and Product Accounts
• Chapter 8. Subjective Social Indicators, Objective Social Indicators, and Social Accounting Systems
• Chapter 9. Social Indicators, Social Change, and Social Accounting: Toward More Integrated and Dynamic Models
• Chapter 10. The Conceptual and Empirical Strengths and Limitations of Demographic and Time-Based Accounts
• Subject Index
• STUDIES IN POPULATION