Composite Indicators

An information server on composite indicators and ranking systems

 (methods, case studies, events)                 

Training on composite indicators development

Bratislava, 20-21 October 2008

Joint Course: JRC & OECD

Agenda and Presentations

20 October, 2008

Organised by the European Commission-Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy)

The objective of this first part of the course is to train officials from the National Statistical Offices of the New Member States on composite indicators development and assessment. In the course, besides the steps required to build a composite indicator, we explore the factors affecting country scores and ranking (such as the issue of weighting, the imputation of missing values, the type of hierarchical structure chosen to represent the framework, or the aggregation method chosen). The course will also illustrate how to gauge the robustness of the message conveyed by a composite indicator, through a combination of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.

21 October, 2008

Organised by the OECD

The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies (GP) exists to foster the development of sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators to provide a comprehensive picture of how the well-being of a society is evolving. It also seeks to encourage the use of indicator sets to inform and promote evidence-based decision-making, within and across the public, private and citizen sectors. The aim of the second day is to raise awareness of the Global Project and the “Statistics, knowledge and policy” chain and to understand the role that composite indicators can play.

Organisation and Financing

The training course is free of charge.

The first day is organized by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The second day is organized by the OECD Statistics Directorate.

The JRC intends to finance the participation of maximum 12 participants from new Member States, Accession Countries and Candidate Countries of the European Union. Travel and accommodation for the selected candidates will be covered. For information about the grant send email to stefano.tarantola(at)jrc.it

Where

The training course will be held at City Hotel in Bratislava: http://www.cityhotelbratislava.sk/

Transportation

For transportation from airport to the Hotel and vice versa click here

Registration and Hotel Reservation

Given the limited number of seats available, registration should be made as soon as possible and in any case not later than September 15^th. Interested participants should:

1. connect to the JRC meeting management system http://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ and create a user account by inserting all the required data.
2. login under the same web-page, select the Bratislava course under ‘Other Locations’ and register for the event without filling any of the logistic arrangements that should instead be provided directly to the Hotel (see point 3).
3. fill the Hotel reservation form and fax or mail it to City Hotel – Bratislava
4. send a copy of your CV to stefano.tarantola(at)jrc.it

Lecturers (JRC-IPSC, Unit G09): A.Saltelli, S. Tarantola, J. Jesinghaus

Background material

1. Saltelli, A., Composite indicators between analysis and advocacy, Social Indicators Research, 2007, 81, 65-77

2. Handbook on constructing composite indicators: methodology and user guide (new 2008 version)

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