ABSTRACT
Quantification of quality of life as perceived by individuals would allow functional relationships to be established between quality of life (QOL) and factors that contribute to it. The various data series were combined into objective QOL indicators measuring socioeconomic status, health status, family status and alienation—the latter measured by suicides and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver. Specification of domains and measurement approaches is the initial step in the development of useful models to measure QOL. Family income, as earlier pointed out, is often used as a proximate indicator of QOL. Farm structure is what Campbell called one of the "facilitators" or "inhibitors" of subjective QOL. The issues of farm viability and control also were central in Richard. E. Rodefeld farm typology which was based on land, labor, and capital. One of the important outcomes of the interest in farm structure is its relationship to farm and farm family income.
