Using a Factorial Survey to Estimate the Relative Importance of Well-Being Dimensions According to Older People: Insights From a Repeated Survey Experiment in Flanders.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Although it has become standard to include the views of older people when assessing their well-being, most existing methods are ill-suited to estimate the relative importance of well-being dimensions. This article investigates the potential of the factorial survey method to estimate the relative importance of six well-being dimensions (health, income, social relations, leisure, engaging activities, and religion) based on the views of older people themselves.

Research design and methods

We implemented a factorial survey in a repeated survey experiment among 800 older adults in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium). We performed several within-sample test-retests to investigate the consistency of the estimated coefficients over time (

SUBMITTER: Van Loon V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9225818 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature