Description:

The JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards is an annual five-day event during which local and international policy and decision makers, academics, think tanks, and practitioners in a wide range of socioeconomic 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

 

Objectives

• To present the concept of composite indicators, strengths and weaknesses and domains of frequent use;
• To provide guidelines on the development of the theoretical framework and selection of indicators;
• To offer practical examples on the preparation of the data set, discuss the importance of the analysis of statistical coherence of the framework, the implications of the choice of the weighting and the aggregation method and the robustness and sensitivity analysis;
• To learn by best practices on how to ensure transparency and statistical soundness when developing composite indicators;
• To offer an Excel-based practical guide for the construction of composite indicators.

 

Lecturers & organising team

V. Alberti, M. Alvarez, W. Becker, G. Caperna, C. Cocco, G. Damioli, P. De Pedraza, M. Del Sorbo, B. D’Hombres, M. Dominguez-Torreiro, V. Montalto, C. Moura, A. Neves, H. Norlen, F. Panella, E. Papadimitriou, D. Vertesy, and M. Saisana