Constructing Consistent Composite Indicators: the Issue of Weights

By Munda Giuseppe, Nardo Michela. 2005

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Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting (2009, background): “Munda and Nardo ( 2006 ) analyse the formal axioms behind the linear aggregation rule and their operational implications and conclude that the use of nonlinear aggregation rules to construct composite indicators is compulsory for reasons of theoretical consistency when weights with the meaning of”
A Comparative Study of Various Inclusive Indices and the Index Constructed By the Principal Components Analysis (2007, background): “…i i m im j I w x w x w x w x i n = = = + + + = There are two approaches to determining w or weights; first by assessing the importance of different variables with regard to the entity, idea or concept that they measure (Munda and Nardo, 2005) and secondly by obtaining those weights intrinsically.”
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness (2018, background): “1 3 will soon find that this is far from actually happening in this aggregation setting, and this situation is the norm rather than the exception (Anderson and Zalinski 1988; Munda and Nardo 2005; Billaut et al. 2010; Rowley et al. 2012; Paruolo et al. 2013).”
Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters (2012, unknown): “Various publications have underlined the lack of theoretical underpinning of a number of composite indices (e.g. Munda and Nardo 2005, Freudenberg 2003, Saisana and Tarantola 2002), highlighting issues related to the aggregation model and/or the weightings in particular.”
Global Insights Based on the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI) (2013, background): “The proliferation of composite indicators is a clear indication of their importance in policy-making [12].”
The argument against a reductionist approach for measuring sustainable development performance and the need for methodological pluralism (2009, methodology): “Munda and Nardo (2005a) have shown that weights do not always retain their status as value judgements within a composite index.”