The standard of living of the owners of rural households according to respondents from Lublin province and Mazovia province
2007
Adamowicz, M. | Siedlecka, A.
One of the methods defining the standard of living in households is its self-assessment by the respondents, which is the subject of this paper. The first plane of the assessment of the standard of living in a household in the simplest dimension is based on the comparison to the nearest environment, which in this case consists of households bordering with the one being evaluated. Comparing the research to the standard of living of neighboring families and households was one of the aspects of the research aiming at subjective assessment of the way the respondents felt about their standard of living. The second area of assessment was connected with subjective evaluation of the current life in comparison to the past, which was due to comparing the present standard of living to the standard of living from 3 years ago, before 1989 and the respondents' standard of living during his adolescence. In the focus of the third plane was the definition of expectations and conjectures which concern the future periods of time. The conjectures concerned the following dimensions: expectations about the financial situation within the next 5 years; predictions about the standard of living of the head of the household and his family while going into retirement (in comparison to the time at which the research was conducted); predictions concerning the standard of living of the children who contribute to the household (in comparison to the respondent's family's standard of living). On the basis of the respondents' impressions determined in that way the standard and quality of living of rural households in two different provinces are distinguished. The dominant feature of Lublin province is agriculture. However, this area is constrained as far as its potential for development is discussed. The Mazovia province is characterized by dynamic development greatly due to the location of the Polish capital city in the province's limits.
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