Statistical assessment

• Author: Giulio Caperna - Eleni Papadimitriou
• Pages: 4-12

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No Dimension Theme Ind icator

Presentation

10 Violence

11 Family planning

12 Environment Hazards Exposure to hazards

13 Voice

In the community

Raise opinion

Bring about change

In the household Control ov er decisions

14 Time Use Labour b urden Leisure time

15 Work

Paid work

Type of work

Security and hazards

Respect

Unpaid work Security a nd hazards

Respect

The IDM hierarchical frame work is conceptually well justified and its structure and themes cover the most relevant

dimensions of deprivation.

Indicators and survey questions, designed to measure these aspects of each dimension were selected based on

their validity, re liability, specificity , feasibility, and comparabil ity, and an overall e mphasis on parsimony.

3 Statistical assessment

The statistical assessment of the IDM framework was performed as follows:

 Assessment of missing data (sectio n 3.1);

 Assessment of the weighting and aggr egation methods (section 3.2)

 Identification of indic ators with strong col linearity, “silent” indicators and indicators that point to the

opposite direction and assessment of the statistic al coherence of the dimensions (sect ion 3.3);

3.1 Data quality and availability

The data analysis presented herein uses the indicators, themes, dimensions and the overall scores2 provided by

the developers.

2 The IDM team provided t he arithmet ic mean (w eighted, u nweight ed). The geom etric one s are calcul ated by the JRC as an alt ernative