Assessment of quality of life in regions of Russia based on social media data

The article offers a new method of quality of life assessment based on online activities of social networks users. The method has obvious advantages (quickness of research, low costs, large scale, and detailed character of the obtained information) and limitations (it covers only the “digital popula...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Evgeniy Shchekotin, Viacheslav Goiko, Mikhail Myagkov, Darya Dunaeva
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: SAGE Publishing 2021
Sujets:
J
Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/c0b2875b1cf344d7856f8e6a4a25ced4
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
Description
Résumé:The article offers a new method of quality of life assessment based on online activities of social networks users. The method has obvious advantages (quickness of research, low costs, large scale, and detailed character of the obtained information) and limitations (it covers only the “digital population,” whereas the rural population is not included). The article dwells on the potential of social networks as a data source to analyze the quality of life; it also presents the results of an empirical study of online activities of the users of VK, the most popular Russian social network. Using the obtained data, the authors have calculated the quality of life index for 83 regions of the Russian Federation based on 19 parameters of economic, social, and political aspects of life quality.