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“Since the latest reviews on the methodological framework of composite indices were published a decade ago (Booysen 2002;Saisana and Tarantola 2002;Freudenberg 2003;Sharpe 2004;Nardo et al. 2005;OECD 2008)”
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“This is natural, as there are many stages in the construction process of a composite index and criticism could grow simultaneously regarding each of them (Booysen 2002).”
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“Correlation analysis is mostly used in the first steps of the construction process to examine the structure and the dynamics of the indicators in the data set (Booysen 2002;OECD 2008).”
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“When the weighting scheme is chosen by the developer of an index, naturally this means that it is conceived as 'subjective', since it relies purely on the developer's perceptions (Booysen 2002).”
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- Booysen, F.
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- University of the Free State (ZA)
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- Booysen, Frederik
- ORCID
- Booysen, Frederik
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- Social Indicators Research
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- 2002-08
- Volume
- 59
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- 115-151
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- 0303-8300 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0921
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- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Quality of Life Measurement
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Keywords
- development indicators, Human Development Index, multidimensional measurement, index aggregation, international comparability
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