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Complexity in Society: From Indicators Construction to their Synthesis

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 70)

Editors: Maggino, Filomena

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60595-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-60593-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 29, 2017

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Complexity: Between Rhetoric and Science

Peruzzi, Alberto

Pages: 3 –50

[The present chapter deals with some general issues of an epistemological nature concerning the notion of complexity. Such issues are examined here only informally. Moreover, there will be no impassioned stance (a few personal remarks will be confined to footnotes), but only conceptual analysis....
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Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach

Sacconaghi, Rocco

Pages: 51 –68

[In this chapter I intend to propose a phenomenological approach to the problem of the synthesis of analytical data – of which social indicators are a subset. Phenomenology is a “theoretical practice” (Husserl 1959) that is realized as a rigorous description of experience (which is, as such,...
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Socio-economic Statistics for a Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era

Fattore, Marco

Pages: 71 –86

[This chapter addresses a topic which is gaining increasing interest in socio-economic statistics and that will play a central role in what in the future could possibly be called “information-based policy-making”. The topic is that of big data and data science and of their potential effects on...
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Developing Indicators and Managing the Complexity

Maggino, Filomena

Pages: 87 –114

[Developing indicators is considered an exercise associated with the measurement process.]
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Dealing with Syntheses in a System of Indicators

Maggino, Filomena

Pages: 115 –137

[As we have seen, indicators developed through the hierarchical design form a complex system. This characteristic may require approaches allowing more concise views able to summarizing the complexity. In this perspective, the guiding concept crossing all possible strategies is synthesis.]
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Scalability of Composite Indices: Complexity Complications and Findings from 15 Years of Monitoring Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States

Land, Kenneth C.; Lamb, Vicki L.; Zang, Xiaolu

Pages: 139 –156

[This chapter commences with a review of the theory of models as cognitive tools/linguistic devices by which we order and organize experiences and observations. Within the context of the theory of models, we then turn to the question of scalability of composite indices, that is: Can properties of...
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Synthesis of Indicators: The Composite Indicators Approach

Mazziotta, Matteo; Pareto, Adriano

Pages: 159 –191

[In recent years, the debate on the measurement of multidimensional phenomena has caused, within the worldwide scientific Community of developed countries, a renewed interest. It is common awareness that a number of socio-economic phenomena cannot be measured by a single descriptive indicator and...
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Synthesis of Indicators: The Non-aggregative Approach

Fattore, Marco

Pages: 193 –212

[The need for new tools in synthetic indicators construction in the social sciences is deeply related to the problem of describing and understanding increasingly complex societal facts. On the one hand, official surveys, administrative data, web data, open data, to say a few, are now easily...
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The Role of Extended IRT Models for Composite Indicators Construction

Gnaldi, Michela; Del Sarto, Simone; Maggino, Filomena

Pages: 213 –227

[Composite indicators are the conventional approach to socio-economic evaluation and are obtained by the combination into a single metrics of a number of individual indicators, each assessing a dimension of the latent phenomenon at issue. When dealing with the measurement of complex latent...
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Synthesis of Indicators Through Weighting: The Experiences of Quality of Life Measures

Hsieh, Chang-ming

Pages: 231 –249

[Development and construction of synthetic indicators for socioeconomics inevitably face the very same concern confronting many quality of life (QOL) measures for individuals: how to account for potential societal, cultural and individual differences in values associated with different sectors,...

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