ABSTRACT
The analysis of socioeconomic characteristics is a useful way of classifying the members of a community into workable categories of those sharing similar traits. The accurate classification of the socioeconomic characteristics of the members of a society is, in reality, sufficient work for a large separate research project. A major task of social science research is the categorization and classification of data. In the survey, several indexes and scales were constructed from the data generated. A satisfaction with life situation index was constructed from data recorded when respondents were asked to compare their present life situation with that of their fathers and with that of their neighbors. The present satisfaction with life situation index is based on the comparison with neighbors. Future life situation is much more speculative and is, no doubt, influenced by subjective optimism or pesimism as well as by an objective evaluation of future chances.
