Composite indicators, or indices, are used in other disciplines to present information from multiple variables in an understandable and usable form [ 4].
Table 5 indicates the socio-demographic variables by composite indicators of knowledge with adjusted odds ratios.
Newer developments towards composite indicators, benchmarking and scoreboarding are discussed.
Thank you to all the colleagues from the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) for their comments during internal presentations.
Based on the literature review concerning composite indicators, we found that linear aggregation rules are the most widely applied aggregation procedures for composite indicators.
Likewise, we suggest a method based on goal programming to construct composite indicators.
Composite indicators and the weights for their individual components were constructed using a Multidimensional Comparative Analysis.
After that we plead for more care in constructing composite indicators.
Analyses and results focused also on composite indicators, first-pick frequencies and objective functions.
One tool for measuring and presenting stability data, for example, incorporates 20 composite indicators of risk in emerging markets and scores risk variables according to both their structural and their temporal components.
We found that composite indicators are powerful tools when it comes to the assessment of multidimensional planning issues.
