eprintid: 3511
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datestamp: 2021-07-01 06:50:56
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Brugma, Laurens
creators_id: S3422364
creators_email: l.d.e.brugma@student.rug.nl
title: Exploring socio-demographic factors and the effect on well-being
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This paper is a case study of Assen, a provincial capital city in the Netherlands. This paper aims to answer the main question: ‘To what extent do socio-demographical factors affect the factors of subjective well-being and wider social well-being, in the city of Assen?’. To discover these socio-demographic factors a social atlas of geographies of Assen is created. The paper further analyses to what extent income inequality affects factors of subjective well-being. The analysis is carried out by a regression model using CBS and KWIZ data. The dataset of CBS provides information about percentages of income groups on a neighbourhood level. The KWIZ-data provides information about the factors of subjective well-being per neighbourhood. To conclude the extent to which the socio-demographical factors of low-education and unemployment are affected by socio-demographic factors are explored.
The atlas of geographies provides an insight in the socio-demographic factors of the neighbourhoods of Assen, through the cartogram’s multiple patterns between socio-demographic factors can be observed. 
It is concluded that; socio-demographic factors affect subjective well-being, income inequality has an effect on perceived safety and therefore affects SWB, and that socio-demographic factors furthermore affect the factors of education and unemployment that according to literature have an effect on subjective well-being.
date: 2021
pages: 34
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Cartograms
keywords_local: Income-inequality
keywords_local: Socio-demographic factors
keywords_local: Well-being
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-06-30
citation:   Brugma, Laurens  (2021) Exploring socio-demographic factors and the effect on well-being.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3511/1/Exploring%20socio-demographic%20factors%20and%20the%20effect%20on%20well-being_L_Brugma.pdf