ABSTRACT. – Quality of Life Audit in the Urban Areas of the Romanian South‐East Development Region. This paper aims to present the concept of quality of life and compare the standard of living in the urban areas of the South‐East region, implementing a new method of analysis, based on quantitative data obtained from statistics. The process of aggregating the statistical data used in this analysis create partial indices (Demographic Index, Social Index, Environment Index, Information Society Index, Culture and Recreation Index) figured out by means of Quality of Life Audit method, which combines the concept and principles of the European program Urban Audit with the formula used by statistical software Dashboard of Sustainability. Finally, the Quality of Life Index is obtained by aggregating the five indices.
Keywords: quality of life, urban area, indicator, index, Urban Audit, Dashboard of Sustainability