The challenges arising from low employment rates, an ageing population, changing family structures and social exclusion have pushed 'quality of life' issues to the front of the EU social policy agenda. The Foundation has launched an initiative to improve the monitoring and reporting of living...

The main objective of the CHANGEQUAL Network was to provide an account of the current state of knowledge and the availability of appropriate data in the following thematic areas: -Comparative Analysis of Intergenerational "Inheritance"; Income Inequality, Poverty and Deprivation; Work and...

The development of conceptual frameworks for the analysis of social exclusion has somewhat out-stripped related methodological developments. This paper seeks to contribute to this process through the application of self-organising maps (SOMs) to the analysis of a detailed set of material...