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

Autor/inn/en	Camfield, Laura; Guillen-Royo, Monica
Titel	Wants, Needs and Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Thailand and Bangladesh
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 96 (2010) 2, S.183-203 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9477-y
Schlagwörter	Expenditures; Income; Comparative Analysis; Well Being; Socioeconomic Status; Foreign Countries; Social Indicators; Economic Factors; Correlation; Regional Characteristics; Individual Needs; Need Gratification; Attitudes; Geographic Location; Place of Residence; Developing Nations; Bangladesh; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausgaben; Einkommen; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Ausland; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Ökonomischer Faktor; Korrelation; Regionaler Faktor; Bedürfnisbefriedigung; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Wohnort; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Bangladesch
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10