Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
(SOL) Discuss the indicators that would best allow the US govt to…
(SOL) Discuss the indicators that would best allow the US govt to determine whether US has achieved an improvement in its SOL. [11]
KW
- Discuss: 2 pov
- indicators: how good is it
- improvement: need to compare before and after
- SOL: define
essay
intro
- define SOL
- include any other info: there are two different types of SOL (material and non-material)
- Outline your answer
Yes, it can help to determine the improvement in SOL
A
- Extract 10 mentioned that majority of the population : have an income
- higher purchasing power
- higher material SOL
REBUT B
- but this percentage may be a small one, hence the non-material SOL may not be that low
- that being said, we still do not have any other data available for comparison, thus it is ultimately still not that good
REBUT C
- but if HH take precautions such as staying indoors and wearing masks their health will not be affected significantly
- thus we do not have enought data to see whether this will affect their material SOL
No, it cannot help to determine the improvement in SOL
(orange - material SOL, yellow - non material SOL)
- the extract did not provide the material SOL statistics for the previous year, so cannot use
- Although GDP seems to indicate/could indicate the material SOL, but there is a large gap between the top and bottom earners, hence material SOL may not have improved
note: so we see that actually its not really atw but you could argue that the GDP is not useful in telling as the SOL as we would like it to be.
REBUT A
- The indicator may not be full useful because it shows no data for the previous year and thus cannot conclude whether the material SOL increase or decrease
- the data does not include those below 15 and over 64
- there might be those above 64 who are still willling and able to work but unable to find a job and thus are unemployed
B
- 11% if the working population may work very long hours
- define non-material SOL
- workers feel less leisure and less able to relax, thus less non-material SOL
C
- pollutant in the air could damage one's lungs
- non-material SOL is low as their health is affected when they suffer from illnesses
conclusion
- thus each indicator has its own usefulness and we cannot conclude based on a single one, only if we have a few
- Apart from those, a more holistic indicator could be HDI
Common types of questions for SOL
- Discuss if __ is sufficient to compare the SOL b/n two countries
- Discuss if the SOL of country A has improved over time
- Discuss if the SOL of country A is higher than that of country B