ENACTUS TRAINING
Measurement Tools
Quality of Life and Standard of Living
Developed by D Caspersz & D Bejr, 2013
All enactus projects should meet
the enactus judging criterion
“Considering the relevant economic, social, and
environmental factors, which enactus team
most effectively empowered people in need
by applying business and economic concepts
and an entrepreneurial approach to improve
their quality of life and standard of living?”
Measuring Empowerment
One method of determining what social change
has occur, or how empowered an individual or
group of people have become, is to measure
their quality of life or/and standard of living.
Variables that can be measured
Standard of Living is…
• Tangible circumstances or variables in which people live, the
goods and services they are able to consume and the economic
resources they have access to
• Such as material comforts, ease of living and opportunities for
personal satisfaction.
• Often ‘income based
• ‘access’ and ‘affordability’ of items such as:
- education or skills development
- health care and sanitation
- materialistic comforts such as housing, clothes and transportation
- sufficient food
Quality of Life is…
• Intangible variables regarding human welfare or wellbeing as measured by social indicators. This includes
(but is not limited to) factors such as:
- self-esteem
- overall satisfaction of life
- working conditions
- ability to care for one’s family
- hope in life
- acceptance in community, neighborhood and/or work
environment
Comparing Quality of Life and
Standard of Living
Quality of Life
Standard of Living
• Intangible
• Tangible
• Often socially based • Often income based
– Self-esteem
– Hope in life
– Life satisfaction
– Education attained
– Health care available
– Access to clean water
Discuss…
• What are the differences between quality of
life and standard of living?
• By targeting one, do you think you will affect
the other through your enactus project work?
• Do you target both at the same time?