Legitimately Diverse, yet Comparable: On Synthesizing Social Inclusion Performance in the EU*

Cherchye, Laurens; Moesen, Willem; Puyenbroeck, Tom Van

doi:10.1111/j.0021-9886.2004.00535.x

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“…Our original variables come in the form of outputs and inputs. In order to transform all of them into dimensionless outputs, we applied the "distance to the group leader" normalization used by Cherchye et al [73], dividing all output variables by their maximum and dividing the minimum of all input variables by their values. See [12] This program is equivalent to the original DEA formulation, for the case that all variables are outputs.…”

Section: Estimating Quality Of Life Scores In Municipalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

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This paper explores the relationship between the practices of good governance and the quality of life at the municipal level in Spain. A composite indicator of the quality of life of 393 Spanish municipalities in 2011 is estimated using varied statistical information. For this purpose, we follow a benefit of the doubt approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Then three dimensions of good governance are considered: transparency, participation, and accountability. The results show a significant positive relationship between quality of life and participation and financial accountability. However, transparency seems to be unrelated to quality of life.

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Section: Estimating Quality Of Life Scores In Municipalitiesmentioning

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“…Cherchye et al (2004) who firstly implemented this method suggested obtaining the benchmark as solution of a maximisation problem, although external benchmarks are also possible:…”

Section: Benefit Of the Doubt Approach (Bod)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Benefit of the doubt (BOD) --e.g., Human Development Index (Mahlberg and Obersteiner, 2001); Sustainable Development (Cherchye and Kuosmanen, 2002); Social Inclusion (Cherchye, Moesen, Van Puyenbroeck, 2004); Macro-economic performance evaluation (Melyn andMoesen, 1991, andCherchye 2001); Unemployment Bjurek, 1999, and.…”

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Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators

2005

OECD Statistics Working Papers

518

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JT00188147 OECD STATISTICS WORKING PAPER SERIESThe OECD Statistics Working Paper Series -managed by the OECD Statistics Directorate -is designed to make available in a timely fashion and to a wider readership selected studies prepared by staff in the Secretariat or by outside consultants working on OECD projects. The papers included are of a technical, methodological or statistical policy nature and relate to statistical work relevant to the organisation. The Working Papers are generally available only in their original language -English or French -with a summary in the other.Comments on the papers are welcome and should be communicated to the authors or to the OECD Statistics Directorate, 2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France.The opinions expressed in these papers are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of the governments of its Member countries.http://www.oecd.org/std/research STD/DOC(2005)3 3 ABSTRACTThis Handbook aims to provide a guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. While there are several types of composite indicators, this Handbook is concerned with those which compare and rank country performance in areas such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development, globalisation and innovation. The Handbook aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity of composite indicators and to an improvement of the techniques currently used to build them. In particular, it contains a set of technical guidelines that can help constructors of composite indicators to improve the quality of their outputs.

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“…Although the DEA domain is very extensive and numerous models exist, making the selection of an appropriate model a rather difficult task, this technique can be translated to be useful for composite indicators. This weighting method has already been used for a number of indexes (Cherchye et al, 2004(Cherchye et al, , 2006Cherchye and Kuosmanen, 2002) and to a limited extent in the road safety context (Odeck, 2005). Its strongest point is that the weights are endogenously determined and derived directly from the data (Cooper et al, 2000).…”

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Combining road safety information in a performance index

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Wets

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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a b s t r a c tIn this paper we focus on an essential step in the construction process of a composite road safety performance indicator: the assignment of weights to the individual indicators. In the composite indicator literature, this subject has been discussed for a long time, and no agreement has been reached so far. The aim of this research is to provide insights in the most important weighting methods: factor analysis, analytic hierarchy process, budget allocation, data envelopment analysis and equal weighting. We will give the essential theoretical considerations, apply the methods on road safety data from various countries and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. This will facilitate the selection of a justifiable method. It is shown that the position of a country in the ranking is influenced by the method used. The weighting methods agree more for countries with a relatively bad road safety performance. Of the five techniques, the weights based on data envelopment analysis resulted in the highest correlation with the road safety ranking of 21 European countries based on the number of traffic fatalities per million inhabitants. This method is valuable for the development of a road safety index.

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Legitimately Diverse, yet Comparable: On Synthesizing Social Inclusion Performance in the EU*

Cited by 151 publications

References 30 publications

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators

Combining road safety information in a performance index

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