Complexity in society : from indicators construction to their synthesis /: from indicators construction to their synthesis. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Filomena Maggino, editor.
• Editors: Maggino, Filomena
• Contents: 1. Complexity: Between Rhetoric and Science -- 2. Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach -- 3. Socio-economic Statistics for a Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era -- 4. Developing Indicators and Managing the Complexity -- 5. Dealing with Syntheses in a System of Indicators -- 6. Scalability of Composite Indices: Complexity Complications and Findings from 15 Years of Monitoring Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States -- 7. Synthesis of Indicators: The Composite Indicators Approach -- 8. Synthesis of Indicators: The Non-aggregative Approach -- 9. The Role of Extended IRT Models for Composite Indicators Construction -- 10. Synthesis of Indicators Through Weighting: The Experiences of Quality of Life Measures -- 11. The Role of Normalisation in Building Composite Indicators. Rationale and Consequences of Different Strategies, Applied to Social Inclusion -- 12. Evaluation of Life Satisfaction in Italy: Proposal of a Synthetic Measure Based on Poset Theory -- 13. Joint Analysis of Structural Models and Performance: Merging Clustering and Composite Indicators in the Analysis of Europe 2020 Strategy.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (332 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306; Social sciences; Social indicators; Social indicators -- Research; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Social indicators; Social indicators -- Research; Social Science -- Statistics; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social research & statistics; Social issues & processes; Social sciences -- Methodology; Statistics; Quality of Life -- Research; Social Science -- Methodology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319605951
• Related ISBNs: 331960595X; 9783319605937; 3319605933
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version of record.
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