Cause-effect Relationships Between Objective and Subjective Measures of Quality of Life in Lithuania Municipalities

The Quality of Life (QoL) in the local place concept anticipates that overall individually perceived QoL is being constituted both by objective local living conditions as well as subjective individual experience and evaluation of these local place's external QoL factors. However, the mathematical-statistical research based scientific evidences about some certain context related direction and strength of relationships between objective local place related conditions (as a cause side) and subjective QoL perception (as an effect side) are lacking. By taking into account specific characteristics, i.e. the extent and nature of the data available to measure the objective and subjective QoL, the article explores methodological possibilities to model statistically probable cause-effect relationships established and empirically observed in Lithuania municipalities’. Such statistical probability based cause-effect models would be extremely valuable in building and justifying empirical observation based and any single municipality local place context relevant QoL improvement strategies.