About
The training (06-08 Nov) will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.
The training is open to all (researchers, policy analysts) with an interest in scoreboards, composite indicators and multi-criteria analysis. No registration fees.
Training Objectives:
- 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;
- 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.
In the following days, 09-10 Nov, the 2017 Annual meeting of Community of Practice on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards will take place.
Agenda & Presentations
12:00 Registration & Welcome Lunch
13:00 Opening & Introduction - Sven Langedijk, Head of Unit
13:30 Interactive Q& A session
13:45 Indices & Scoreboards: Ten steps guide(uses and misuses, framework, indicators, data treatment, weighting, aggregation, statistical coherence, communication, transparency)
14:30 Steps 1 & 2: Framework & Indicators (definition, added-value, multidimensionality, selection criteria for indicators)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Step 3: Outliers & Missing data (Outliers: winsorization, trimming, Box-Cox; Missing data: mean/median, hot-deck, EM, cross-sectional trend analysis.)
18:00 End of first day
09:00 Welcome Coffee
09:30 Step 4: Normalisation (min-max, distance to best performer, z-scores, categorical, ranking)
10:15 Step 5: Weighting methods (I) (statistical: principal component analysis, data envelopment analysis)
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Step 5: Weighting methods (II) (participatory: budget allocation, analytic hierarchy process)
13:15 Lunch break
14:30 Step 6: Aggregation rules (generalized mean, median ranking, Borda, Condorcet, Copeland, Arrow-Raynaud, Kemeny)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Step 7: Statistical coherence (I) (correlations, cross-correlations)
18:00 End of second day
09:00 Welcome Coffee
09:30 Step 7: Statistical coherence (II) (principal component analysis, exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach alpha)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Step 8: Quality control & Robustness (Pearson correlation coefficient, non-linear Pearson correlation ratio, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis)
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Steps 9 & 10 Visualization & Communication (back to the data, radar plots, scatterplots, heatmaps)
15:00 Interactive Q & A Session
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Audit your index: JRC–COIN tool (an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators and scoreboards)
18:30 End of training
09:15 Welcome - Xavier Troussard, Director, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
09:30 Panel I: Indices & Scoreboards on Inequality and Poverty - Moderator: Beatrice D’Hombres, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index - Natalie Nairi Quinn, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Global Property Rights Index - Anna Locke, Overseas Development Institute
Commitment to Development Index - Anita Käppeli, Centre for Global Development
Community of Practice Forum discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel II: Indices & Scoreboards on Gender Equality & SDGs - Moderator: William Becker, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Equal Measures 2030 global gender equality index and the SDGs - Albert Motivans, Equal Measures 2030
Model-based Synthesis for SDGs Indicators - Maurizio Vichi, University of Rome La Sapienza
Gender Equality Index - Marre Karu, European Institute for Gender Equality
Community of Practice Forum discussion
13:00 Lunch buffet and discussions
14:00 Panel III: Indices & Scoreboards on Innovation - Moderator: Claudia Ghisetti, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Global Innovation Index - Lorena Rivera Leon, World Intellectual Property Organization
Rafael Escalona Reynoso, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
European Innovation and Regional Innovation Scoreboard - Daniel Bloemers, Directorate General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Innovation Output Indicator - Daniel Vertesy, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Community of Practice Forum discussion
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel IV: Indices & Scoreboards on Social Rights & Social Progress - Moderator: Daniel Vertesy, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Global Social Progress Index - Tamar Hellman, Social Progress Imperative
Social Progress Index - sub-national insights - Petra Krylova, Social Progress Imperative
Social Scoreboard for the European Pillar of Social Rights - Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Community of Practice Forum discussion
17:30 End of first day
09:30 Panel V: Indices & Scoreboards on Competitiveness, Attractiveness, Risk Management - Moderator: Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Index for Risk Management - Luca Vernaccini, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Global Talent Competitiveness Index - Eduardo Rodriguez Montemayor, INSEAD – The Business School for the World
Elcano Global Presence Index - Iliana Olivié, Elcano Royal Institute
Global Attractiveness Index - Lorenzo Tavazzi, The European House - Ambrosetti
Community of Practice Forum discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Panel VI: Indices & Scoreboards on Culture and Creativity - Moderator: Francesco Panella, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor - Valentina Montalto, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Community of Practice Forum discussion
13:00 Lunch buffet and discussions
14:00 Panel VII: Indices & Scoreboards on Governance & Cybersecurity - Moderator: Valentina Montalto, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
WJP Rule of Law Index - Alejandro Ponce, World Justice Project
Global Cybersecurity Index - Grace Acayo, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Governance as global development goal - Antonio Savoia, University of Manchester
Community of Practice Forum discussion
15:30 Concluding Remarks - Michaela Saisana, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
15:45 End of the Community of Practice Meeting
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