Residents’ perception of some aspects of quality of life in the cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

In fi ve focus groups, organized in fi ve major cities in Bosnia and Herzegovinaresidents gave answers on how they perceive some aspects of quality of life thatwould have to be improved by their municipal authorities. On this basis,we constructed a scale for measuring the quality of life in those areas whichare under the local jurisdiction and in which local authorities can aff ect thequality of life of residents. Factor analysis extracted 7 factors of quality of lifewith which we can explain 71% variance, while individual factors explain5-26% of common variance. Th e scale for measuring the quality of life wasadministered to 1503 respondents in 14 cities in B&H. It is found that thereare signifi cant diff erences in quality of life among certain municipalities,while the quality of life in the Republic of Srpska and Federation B&H isuniform.