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Life quality assessment in the city of Jelgava

2018; Volume: 48; Linguagem: Inglês

10.22616/esrd.2018.072

2255-9930

Līga Feldmane,

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Studies about life quality and people's satisfaction with life currently are focused on cities as important cultural, social and political centres.The aim of the study is to evaluate residents' satisfaction with life quality in Jelgava; and to achieve it, such methods as analysis of theoretical literature and statistical analysis, classification and comparison of data about satisfaction with life quality in Jelgava city from survey "Quality of Life in Cities", which was conducted by Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia in 2017, were applied.Results demonstrate that overall satisfaction level with living in Jelgava is relatively high and is one of the highest among other regional cities of Latvia.It was observed that satisfaction with living in Jelgava is closely related with several indicators that characterized the household's living standard and financial situation -the worse was situation in the household, the lower satisfaction level with life in Jelgava was.The residents of Jelgava are mainly satisfied with environmental factors, while such elements as the condition of the streets and buildings, health care services and public transport were assessed the lowest.The main issues facing Jelgava were road infrastructure, unemployment and health services, while noise level, education and training as well as air pollution were the least mentioned.It was observed that people firstly point out issues that are common with their subjective experience and what bother their individual life.