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KMID : 0385719950150010143
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Journal of Population, Health and Social Welfare
1995 Volume.15 No. 1 p.143 ~ p.159
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Determinants of a Better Living -A Cross-Country Analysis
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Abu Jafar Mohammad Sufian
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Abstract
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The Population Crisis Committee, Draper Fund rated 130 countries on the International Human Suffering Index created on the basis of 10 socioeconomic, and development variables. The countries have then been classified into three groups: group 1 - high living standard countries, group 2- medium living standard countries, and group 3 - low living standard countries, depending on their index values. The canonical discriminant analysis technique has been employed in this paper to identify those variables which contribute most in discriminating among the three groups. The analysis shows that the first canonical variable accounts for 92 percent of the total discriminable variance existing in the discriminating variables. In addition, the analysis has correctly classified 120 out of 130 countries lending support to the adequacy of the discriminant analysis. Also, an examination of both the standardized coefficients and the total structure coefficients shows that the infant mortality is the most influential variable in the first function. Among the variables considered in this study, only the inflation variable failed to contribute substantially in discriminating the groups. Policy implications are discussed.
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