A Partial Ordering Application in Synthetizing Dimensions of Subjective Well-being

This work concerns the potentiality applying a partial ordering method to a sociological study. It studies the relationships between labour status and subjective well-being, analysing micro-data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eu-SILC). The analysis focuses on the ad-hoc module on subjective well-being revealed in the 2013 edition of the survey. Following the OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being (2013), I assumed the multidimensionality of well-being as a premise. In order to preserve the multidimensionality of the concept of Subjective Well-being (SWB), I applied a non-aggregative synthesis approach based on partial ordering. This note compares results of Partial Ordering methodology with results of other synthesis methods.