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The training (26-28 September 2016) 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.
The following day, 29 September 2016, the 2016 Annual meeting of Community of Practice on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards will take place. The purpose of this one-day event is to bring together policy analysts and researchers from the European Commission, international organizations, think tanks and the academia, to foster a practical exchange of experiences across a wide range of key policy areas that are monitored through composite indicators and scoreboards.
Agenda & Presentations
09:30 Opening & Introduction - Sven Langedijk, Head of Unit
10:00 Indices & Scoreboards: Ten steps guide - (uses and misuses, framework, indicators, data treatment, weighting, aggregation, statistical coherence, communication, transparency)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Steps 1 & 2: Framework & Indicators (definition, added-value, multidimensionality, selection criteria for indicators)
12:15 Step 3: Missing data & Outliers (missing data: mean/median, hot-deck, EM, cross-sectional trend analysis. Outliers: winsorization, trimming, Box-Cox)
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Step 4: Normalisation (min-max, distance to best performer, z-scores, categorical, ranking)
15:00 Step 5: Weighting methods (I) (statistical: principal component analysis, data envelopment analysis)
16:00 Coffee break16:30 Step 5: Weighting methods (II) (participatory: budget allocation, analytic hierarchy process, conjoint analysis)
18:00 End of first day
20:00 Social event
09:30 Step 6: Aggregation rules (generalized mean, median ranking,
Borda, Condorcet, Copeland, Arrow-Raynaud, Kemeny)
11:00 Coffee break
12:00 Step 7: Statistical coherence (I) (correlations, cross-correlations)
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Step 7: Statistical coherence (II) (principal component analysis, exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach alpha, Rasch analysis)
15:30 Step 8: Quality control & Robustness (Pearson correlation coefficient, nonlinear Pearson correlation ratio, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis)
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Steps 9 & 10 Visualization & Communication (back to the data, radar plots, scatterplots, heatmaps)
18:00 End of second day
09:30 Audit your index - (Q & A, pitfalls to be avoided)
10:00 Audit your index: JRC–COIN tool - (an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Audit your index: JRC – COIN tool (part II)
13:00 Lunch break
15:00 Visit to the JRC Visitors Centre
16:30 End of training
29 September | Community of Practice
Digital Economy & Society Index (DESI) Balazs Zorenyi, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology
Macroeconomic Imbalances Scoreboard - Jonas Fischer, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Gender Equality Index (GEI) - Marre Karu, European Institute for Gender Equality
Visualizing Quality: Towards Tangible Urban Processes - Ariel Noyman, Research Scientist, M.I.T Media Lab
European Digital City Index (EDCI) - Siddharth Bannerjee, NESTA
Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) - Markus Meinzer, Tax Justice Network
Better Life Index - Elena Tosetto, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Universities as Celebrities - Andrea Bonaccorsi, Pisa University
Civic Competence of Youth in Europe: Measuring Cross National variation through the Creation of a Composite Indicator - Bryony Hoskins, University of Roehampton
Dimensions of Well-Being and Their Statistical Measurements - Maurizio Vichi, University of Rome La Sapienza
Geometric Mean Quantity Index Numbers with Benefit-of-the-Doubt Weights - Tom Van Puyenbroeck, KU Leuven, Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles
Panel III - A new approach to the QS university ranking using the composite I-distance indicator: Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses - Veljko Jeremic, University of Belgrade
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