Assessment of Economic Increase and Social Development by Means of Social Indicators

Necessity of increasing management efficiency and extending concerns regarding social policy in contemporary societies required, as an instrumental necessity, a better evaluation of economic-social prosperity and quality of life by means of social indicators. The application of social indicators arose as a real scientific “movement”, instrumental as well, determined by the increasing lack of satisfaction towards overrating of the role of economic aspects in the assessment of prosperity defining a given nation, in relation to ignoring the assessments made by the very human factor of this prosperity. Such a movement determined going from strict estimates of economic performances to assessing, in the same degree, the economic and social factors, from measuring the objective components to subjective ones, concretized by peoples’ aspirations and satisfactions, from emphasis on quantitative to qualitative elements.