WEIGHTS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL INDICES OF WELLBEING: AN OVERVIEW

被引：410

作者：

Decancq, Koen ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Lugo, Maria Ana ^{[4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Antwerp, Ctr Social Policy, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium

[2] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr Econ Studies, Louvain, Belgium

[3] Catholic Univ Louvain, CORE, Louvain, Belgium

[4] Univ Oxford, Dept Econ, Oxford, England

[5] World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 USA

来源：

ECONOMETRIC REVIEWS | 2013年 / 32卷 / 01期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

Composite indicator; Multidimensional wellbeing index; Weights; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; WORLD INEQUALITY; POVERTY; DEPRIVATION; INDICATORS; ACHIEVEMENT; EVOLUTION;

D O I：

10.1080/07474938.2012.690641

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Multidimensional indices are becoming increasingly important instruments to assess the wellbeing of societies. They move beyond the focus on a single indicator and yet they are easy to present and communicate. A crucial step in the construction of a multidimensional index of wellbeing is the selection of the relative weights for the different dimensions. The aim of this article is to study the role of these weights and to critically survey eight different approaches to set them. We categorize the approaches in three classes: data-driven, normative, and hybrid weighting, and compare their respective advantages and drawbacks.

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