The quality of life in Poland and Germany

Due to the fact that Poland aspires to be an economically developed country, it appears to be important to compare the quality of life of Polish citizens with the quality of life of citizens in a fully developed country like Germany. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether the quality of life evaluation scheme in Poland is similar to the scheme in Germany. Statistical data from the European Quality of Life Survey is used to achieve this aim. The subjective self-evaluation of happiness is compare to the objective quality of lifebased on the capability approach. The aggregate measure of quality of life is constructed on the basis of the Total, Fuzzy and Relative approach. The factors of quality of life which are the most divergent from subjective perception of happiness are indicated. Finally, in order to measure the diversity of these assessments the mobility index, applicable to the study of structural changes, is used.