Our expertise on statistical methodologies and in developing sound composite indicators provides policy-makers with the ‘big picture’ for informed policy decisions and progress monitoring.
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
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-economicfields learn from best practices and showcase their capacity to inform policies through the use of indicator systems that summarisemultidimensional concepts from social rights and social trust to innovation and competitiveness
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.
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
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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)
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
09:30 Step 7: Statistical coherence (II) (principal component analysis, reliability analysis)
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
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