Choosing Aggregation Rules for Composite Indicators

Autor/in	Munda, Giuseppe
Titel	Choosing Aggregation Rules for Composite Indicators
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 109 (2012) 3, S.337-354 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9911-9
Schlagwörter	Decision Making; Social Indicators; Voting; Theories; Computation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Abstimmung; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	From a formal point of view, a composite indicator is an aggregate of all dimensions, objectives, individual indicators and variables used for its construction. This implies that what defines a composite indicator is the set of properties underlying its mathematical aggregation convention. In this article, I try to revise the theoretical debate on aggregation rules by looking at contributions from both voting theory and multi-criteria decision analysis. This cross-fertilization helps in clarifying many ambiguous issues still present in the literature and allows discussing the key assumptions that may change the evaluation of an aggregation rule easily, when a composite indicator has to be constructed. (Contains 9 tables and 11 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10