Florida--Social conditions

The objective of this thesis was to understand and
model social well-being, a way of measuring quality of
life, in the counties of Florida. First, the concepts of
social well-being were reviewed. Second, models of social
well-being for 1960 and 1970 were proposed and developed
through a factor analytic approach. Third, the patterns
of social well-being were discussed and the change over
the decade revealed. Fourth, these components of social
well-being were evaluated as explanators of net migration
rates through multiple linear regression. Finally, the
results were reviewed, compared to similar approaches,
and fitted into an overall picture of social well-being
analyses.