Mercedes Camarero

Pablo de Olavide University | UPO

En este artículo se divulgan los resultados de una investigación que tiene por objeto conocer las nuevas tendencias de consumo turístico de los españoles. Aplicando la técnica del análisis de correspondencias a los datos de la encuesta del C.I.S. se ponen de relieve dos tendencias de cambio en cuanto a los motivos que mueven a los turistas: la crec...

En esta presentación se muestra el progreso de la igualdad de género experimentado por España en la dos últimas décadas, esto es, desde el año 2000 al 2020. El análisis está basado en el Índice Europeo de Igualdad de Género (IEIG) (Bericat, 2012). Este índice compuesto incorpora 18 indicadores en tres dimensiones: el acceso a la educación; la integ...

Injuries from accidents are an important public health problem in Europe. This study provides a diagnosis of this social problem, examining whether differences in accident rates and injury rates between European countries can be explained in terms of a collective propensity or tendency to suffer accidental injury. Identifying the social factors tha...

Quality of life and social quality are the two main components of the quality of societies. Social indicators are closely linked to quality of life since their origins. The indices of quality of life measures a comprehensive set of components (from 3 to 11 dimensions) of a country’s well-being and aggregates them into an overall framework. In this...

In this chapter, we present the theoretical framework, distinctive features, and applications of the System of Indices on the Quality of the European Societies (SIQES). The SIQES is the result of a compilation of the main composite social indicators created in order to measure important aspects of the quality of the European societies: quality of l...

Social and political participation are two of the basic dimensions of the social quality of a society, in particular, one of the main pillars to achieve social cohesion. This chapter contains five indices that describe two crucial elements of civil society: social participation (cooperation between individuals to produce public goods or social capi...

In today's Risk Society, accidental injuries are considered an important public health problem. To design coherent programmes aimed at reducing risk, it is necessary to measure the magnitude of this phenomenon with its changing meaning –from random misfortune to foreseeable and preventable risk. To calculate the total volume of accidental injuries...

Social relations as a strategic ressourse for the development of society. The available social capital in Andalusia and Catalonia Social Capital is an informal rule which promotes cooperation between individuals. This reciprocity rule, based on trust, is useful for individuals as well as for society. In fact, social capital has entailed numerous so...

Ressenya de l'obra de Rafael Gobernado Arribas apareguda el 1996, Análisis comparado de las estructuras sociales de Andalucía y Cataluña. Málaga: Universitats de Màlaga i Almeria.