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141by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...The guiding principle of this chapter, and the whole book, is that various different aspects of life must be taken into account when determining individual...”
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142by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_14, we examined in detail how partners in couples divide their available time between market labour, childcare and household...”
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143by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_10, we discussed the average spending patterns of different types of families. More specifically, we illustrated how the...”
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144by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...Like many Western countries, Belgium has undergone major demographic changes in recent decades. Although many people still regard a two-parent family with...”
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145by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...The quality and accessibility of healthcare are primarily important because they (hopefully) contribute to better health, undoubtedly one of the most important...”
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146by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...Single-parent families can rely on particular attention in the literature as they are often over-represented in the poorer segments of the population. This is...”
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147by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...Health is certainly a major concern for many people. “As long as you’ve got your health…” is a common expression in many regions of Belgium. In this chapter,...”
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148by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_3, we saw that a wide variety of family types exist in our country. Although single person households make up the largest...”
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149by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...On average, Belgians with a decent income, good health, a relationship and work are happier than others. So couldn’t we simply use reported happiness as an...”
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150by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...We had two objectives in mind when writing this book. Our first objective was to map the individual well-being of the Belgian population. With the help of the...”
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151by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...The results described in this book were obtained by means of a large-scale survey across the whole of Belgium. This survey was funded by the Belgian Science...”
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152by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In this book, we try to give a picture of the individual well-being of Belgians. We describe which aspects of life determine this well-being and how these...”
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153by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...To find out how happy Belgians are, we must first dive deeper into the underlying question as to how concepts such as happiness and life satisfaction can...”
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154by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...As a result of the ageing population, the number of elderly people in our society is rising sharply. Most of them are no longer active on the labour market and...”
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155by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Part II, we already gave several examples of pairwise correlations between poor scores for various dimensions of well-being (health and income, income and...”
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156by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...Alongside health, the employment situation can be regarded as an essential non-material dimension of well-being. Employment can contribute to social...”
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157by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...Material welfare can be viewed from various different perspectives. Firstly, we can focus on disposable incomes. Disposable income is defined as the monthly...”
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158by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Chapter 1, we already emphasised that a family’s income—or the expenditure that a family can afford—is very important component of well-being. As explained...”
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159by Capéau, Bart Cherchye, Laurens Decancq, Koen Decoster, André Rock, Bram De Maniquet, François Nys, Annemie Périlleux, Guillaume Ramaekers, Eve Rongé, Zoé Schokkaert, Erik Vermeulen, Frederic Published in Well-being in Belgium (10.10.2020)“...In Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_12, we reviewed the time-use patterns of all types of families. In this chapter, we will examine the distribution of time...”
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160“...The implementation of Gary Becker’s (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In...”