About
The JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards is an annual five-day event.
Local and international policy and decision makers, academics, think tanks, and practitioners in a wide range of socio-economic
fields learn from best practices and showcase their capacity to inform policies through the use of indicator systems that summarise
multidimensional concepts from social rights and social trust to innovation and competitiveness
- What are the state-of-art methods to develop and audit indices and scoreboards?
- How much faith can we have in multidimensional frameworks and how can common pitfalls be avoided?
- How can indices and scoreboards better inform policy and be communicated to the wider public?
- What already successful tools can be further adopted?
The training (05-07 Nov) offers lessons learnt from the JRC assessments of more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.
The community of practice meeting (08-09 Nov) offers a unique opportunity for networking and practical exchange of experiences across a wide range of key policy areas that are monitored through composite indicators and scoreboards.
The event is open to all (researchers, policy analysts) with an interest in informing policies through multidimensional indicator frameworks (scoreboards, composite indicators). There are no registration fees.
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)
14:45 Steps 1 & 2: Framework & Indicators (definition, added-value, multidimensionality, selection criteria for indicators)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Step 3: Outliers & Missing data (Outliers: winsorization, trimming, Box-Cox; Missing data: mean/median, hot-deck, EM, cross-sectional trend analysis.)
17:00 Audit your index: JRC-COIN tool (I)(an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators and scoreboards)
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)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Step 5: Weighting methods (II) (participatory: budget allocation, analytic hierarchy process)
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 Step 6: Aggregation rules (generalized mean, median ranking, Borda, Condorcet, Copeland, Arrow- Raynaud, Kemeny)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Step 7: Statistical coherence (I) (correlations, cross-correlations)
17:00 Audit your index: JRC-COIN tool (II) (an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators and scoreboards)
18:00 End of second day
09:00 Welcome Coffee
09:30 Step 7: Statistical coherence (II) (principal component analysis, reliability analysis)
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 Coffee break
15:30 Audit your index: JRC–COIN tool (III) (an Excel-based guide for assessing, partially, the soundness of composite indicators and scoreboards)
18:00 End of training
Community of Practice - Opening
09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 Panel I: Fairness & Inequality - Moderator: Beatrice D’HOMBRES, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index: A global ranking of governments based on what they are doing to tackle the gap between rich and poor - Chiara MARIOTTI, Oxfam
Corruption Perceptions Index: Putting the issue of corruption on the international policy agenda - Coralie PRING, Transparency International
Financial Secrecy Index: A tool for understanding global financial secrecy and illicit financial flows - Markus MEINZER, Tax Justice Network
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel II: Social Rights & Social Trust - Moderator: Maria DEL SORBO, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Social Justice Index: Social Justice in the EU – The state of play - Thorsten HELLMANN, Bertelsmann Stiftung
Global Slavery Index: Putting the spotlight on modern slavery –a hidden, everyday problem - Katharine BRYANT, Walk Free Foundation (via VC)
The Human Freedom Index: where is the freedomland? The definition and measurement of freedom, and relationship among personal freedom, economic freedom, democracy, and well-being - Tanja PORČNIK, the Cato Institute
13:00 Lunch buffet and discussions
14:00 Panel III: Resilience & Risk Management - Moderator: Eleni PAPADIMITRIOU, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Resilience Framework: The Resilience of EU member states to the Global Crisis - Anna Rita MANCA, European Commission Joint Research Centre
The Global Conflict Risk Index: A global quantitative assessment of risk for violent conflict - Marie SCHELLENS, European Commission Joint Research Centre
INFORM: An Index for Risk Management - Karmen POLJANSEK, European Commission Joint Research Centre
FM Global Resilience Index: A country ranking of enterprise resilience to disruptive events - Cédric LENOIRE, FM Insurance Europe (via VC)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel IV: Sustainable Development & Sustainable Governance - Moderator: Ana Rita NEVES, European Commission Joint Research Centre
SDG Index & Dashboard: Tracking progress of UN member states towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - Guillaume LAFORTUNE, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
ASEM Sustainable Connectivity Portal: An online tool to support policy debate on sustainable connectivity between Asia and Europe - William BECKER, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Natural Resource Governance Index: Measuring country-level quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sectors - Anna FLEMING, Liz MCGRATH, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Sustainable Governance Indicators: Measuring sustainable governance across OECD and EU countries - Julia SCHMIDT, Bertelsmann STIFTUNG
17:30 End of first day
09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 Panel V: Education & Skills - Moderator: Hedvig NORLÉN, European Commission Joint Research Centre
European Skills Index: A monitoring framework for measuring the performance of skills systems in the EU - Ilias LIVANOS, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Mobility Scoreboard in Higher Education: A tool to monitor national action supporting learning mobility - Anna HORVATH and David CROSIER, European Commission Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (via VC)
Human Capital Index: A framework that quantifies the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers - Nicola DEHNEN, World Bank
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel VI: Ageing societies & Migration - Moderator: Giulio CAPERNA, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Building a protection vulnerability formula - Osama ABDELHAY, Hania SAHNOUN, UN High Commissioner for Refugees - Simone DEL SARTO, University of Perugia
Active Ageing Index: A tool to measure the untapped potential of older people across countries - Olga KHARITONOVA, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Ettore MARCHETTI, European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
Migrant Integration Policy Index: A tool to assess how countries are promoting Integration of Migrants - Giacomo SOLANO, Migration Policy Group
13:00 Lunch buffet and discussions
14:00 Panel VII: Innovation & Digital Transformation - Moderator: Daniel VERTESY, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Inclusive and sustainable industrial development platform/SDG9 indicators: Challenges in aggregating economic, environmental and social indicators into synthetic indices - Nicola CANTORE, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Well-being in the digital age: Towards a measurement framework of the opportunities and risks of the digital transformation for well-being - Vincent SIEGERINK, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Mapping Museums and Nightlife: Building interactive maps to understand policy issues - John DAVIES, NESTA
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel VIII: SMEs & Competitiveness - Moderator: Pablo DE PEDRAZA, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Access to Finance Index: Monitoring SMEs’ access to financial resources in the EU - Wouter TORFS, Research & Market Analysis Division, European Investment Fund
Single Market Scoreboard: Measuring performance of the Single Market - Javier PALMERO ZURDO, European Commission, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW)
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Understanding the entrepreneurial phenomenon and its transformative benefits - Alicia CODURAS, GEM Consortium
Small Business Act Fact Sheets: Monitoring and assessing countries’ progress in implementing the Small Business Act (SBA) - Martin MULLER, European Commission, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW)
17:30 Concluding Remarks
17:45 End of the Community of Practice Meeting
More editions
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2019 - JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards
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