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The training will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.
Training Objectives:to present the concepts of composite indicators and scoreboards and discuss similarities/differences, strengths/weaknesses, policy uses;to provide guidelines on shaping the theoretical framework;to offer practical examples on the dataset preparation;to highlight the implications of the conceptual and methodological choices;to underline the importance of conceptual/statistical coherence;to offer an Excel-based tool for assessing a composite indicator/scoreboard.
The training is open to all (researchers, policy analysts) with an interest in scoreboards, composite indicators and multi-criteria analysis. No registration fees.
Agenda & Presentations
09:30 Opening Introduction (composite indicators and scoreboards: similarities/differences, policy uses/misuses)
10:30 Ten steps guideframework, indicators, data treatment, weighting, aggregation, statistical coherence, communication, transparency
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Framework and Indicators - definition, added-value, spatial-temporal scale, compensability, multidimensionality
12:00 Missing data and Outliers - missing data: mean/median, hot-deck, EM, cross-sectional trend analysis. Outliers: winsorization, trimming, Box-Cox
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Normalisation - min-max, distance to best performer, z-scores, categorical, ranking
15:00 Statistical coherence (I) correlations, cross-correlations
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Statistical coherence (II) - principal component analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, cluster analysis, Cronbach alpha
17:30 Visit to the JRC Visitors’ Centre
18:00 End of first day
09:30 Weighting methods (I) participatory: budget allocation, analytic hierarchy process, conjoint analysis
10:30 Weighting methods (II) statistical: principal component analysis, data envelopment analysis
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Aggregation rules - generalized mean, median ranking, Borda, Condorcet, Kemeny
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Quality Assurance and Robustness - Pearson correlation coefficient, non-linear Pearson correlation ratio, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
15:30 Audit your index: pitfalls to be avoided
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Audit your index: JRC – COIN tool - an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators
18:00 End of training
More editions
2021 - JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards
2019 - JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards
2018 - JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 20 May 2020 | 09 Jun 2022 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Composite Indicators |
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