CONFERENCE "DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY IN SOCIETY: FROM PLURALITY OF DATA TO SYNTHETIC INDICATORS"

University of Padua, Palazzo Bo

Thursday 17^th and Friday 18^th of September 2015

 

PROGRAM (download in pdf)

Registration and welcome coffee

(open bar until 11.30)

 

Sept 17^th  09.45 – 10.30, Archivio Antico

OPENING SESSION

Giuseppe Zaccaria, Chancellor of the University of Padua

Ming-Chang TSAI, President of the ISA  Research Committee on Social Indicators RC55

Nicola Torelli, President of the Italian Society of Statistics

Alessandra Salvan, Head of the Department of Statistical Sciences

Giovanna Boccuzzo and Filomena Maggino, Conference Chairs

 

Sept 17^th  10.30 – 12.00, Archivio Antico

Round table: "THE ROLE OF COMPOSITE INDICATORS IN THE DATA REVOLUTION"

Chair: Filomena Maggino, University of Florence

Keynote Speaker: Enrico Giovannini, University  of  Rome  “Tor Vergata”

Speakers:  Sabina  Alkire, Oxford University, OPHI; Giuseppe Nicoletti, OECD; Roberto Barcellan, EUROSTAT

 

Sept 17^th  12.00 – 13.30, Archivio Antico

Session 1: Synthetic Measures of Gender Equality

Chair: Maria Letizia Tanturri, University of Padua, Italy

Slides Session 1

Invited Speech: Anna Rita Manca, European Institute for Gender Equality, Vilnius, Lithuania. Slides

Measuring Gender Equality in EU through a Time Series: EIGE Gender Equality Index

 

Agnese Maria Di Brisco and Patrizia Farina, "Milano-Bicocca" University – Milan, Italy.  Slides

Measuring gender gap from a poset perspective

 

Piotr Michon, Poznań University of Economics Poznań, Poland.

The Division of Household Labour in Dual-Earner Families – in the search for synthetic indicators

 

Sept 17^th  12.00 – 13.30, Aula Nievo

Session 2: Latent variable models for computing synthetic indicators

Chair: Maurizio carpita, University of Brescia, Italy

Slides Session 2

Organizers: Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi (ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France) and Laura Trinchera (NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France)

 

Maurizio Vichi, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.

Statistical composite indicators to convey consistent policy messages

 

Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France; Giorgio Russolillo, CNAM, Paris, France; Laura Trinchera, NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France

Multidimensional and non-metric extensions of PLS Path Modeling for synthetic indicators.

 

Cristina Davino, University of Macerata, Italy; Pasquale Dolce, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France; Stefania Taralli, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Ancona, Italy  Slides

Quantile Composite-based Path Modeling for measuring equitable and sustainable well-being

 

Mario Fordellone  and Giovanna Boccuzzo, University of Padua,  Italy Slides

Non-metric PLS path modelling: a new approach to building a composite indicator of job quality

 

lunch

 

Sept 17^th 14.30 – 15.30, Archivio Antico

Keynote Speech

Epistemology of Complexity: The Rethoric Way and the Scientific Way

Alberto Peruzzi, University of Florence

 

Sept 17^th  15.30 – 17.00, Archivio Antico

Session 3: Social Cohesion and Sustainability

Chair: Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Slides Session 3

 Georgi Dragolov and Klaus Boehnke, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany; Jan Delhey, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany  www.social-cohesion.net

Developing an index of social cohesion

 

Gianmaria Bottoni, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy  Slides

A multilevel SEM measurement model of social cohesion

 

Enrico di Bella, Lucia Leporatti, Barbara Cavalletti, University of Genoa, Italy; Matteo Corsi, University of Pavia, Italy  Slides

Twenty years of sustainable development efforts: a multi-indicators approach

 

Luca Farnia, Lorenza Campagnolo, Fabio Eboli, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy; Carlo Carraro, University Cà Foscari of Venice, Italy, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy; Silvio Giove, University Cà Foscari of Venice, Italy.  Slides

Fuzzy measures, Choquet integral and preferences elicitation: an application to the sustainability composite index

 

 

Sept 17^th  15.30 – 17.00, Aula Nievo

Session 4: Citizens’ opinions and needs

Chair: Christian Suter, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Slides Session 4

Mario Quaranta, LUISS “Guido Carli”, Roma, Italy  Slides

What is the quality of democracy? A citizens’ perspective from Europe.

 

Hamed Hosseini, The University of Newcastle, Australia; Lawrence J. Saha, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia  Slides

How ‘Critically Open-minded’ are we? An Australian Perspective, through the World Values Survey (2005-2012)

 

Francesco Vidoli, "Roma tre" University, Rome, Italy  Slides

Infrastructure Local Expenditure Needs: a proposal for Italian municipalities

 

Frauke Fuhrmann and Margit Scholl, Technical University of Applied Sciences, Wildau, Germany; Rainer Bruggemann, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany  Slides

How can indicators support the empowerment of employees with intellectual disabilities?

 

Social program

17.00 – 19.00: cocktail and  visit to Botanical Garden

Sept 18^th  09.00 – 10.30 Archivio Antico

Session 5: Social reporting of quality of life indicators

Chair: Matteo Mazziotta, Italian National Institute of Statistics

Slides Session 5

 Jeroen Boelhouwer, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research  Slides

An index for quality of life: 40 years of experience

 

Jehane Simona Moussa, Tugce Beycan, Katia Iglesias Rutishauser and Christian Suter, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland  Slides

Multidimensional Quality of Life in Switzerland: Towards New Synthetic Measures for Social Reporting

 

Eduardo González Fidalgo, Ana Cárcaba García and Juan Ventura Victoria, University of Oviedo, Spain  Slides

Combining dimensions of Quality of Life in Spanish Municipalities

 

Elena Tosetto, Carlotta Balestra and Romina Boarini, OECD Statistics Directorate, Paris, France  Slides

“Your” Better Life Index: involving people and learning what matters most to them

 

Sept 18^th  09.00 – 10.30, Aula Nievo

Session 6: Measuring performance

Chair: Michela Gnaldi, University of Perugia, Italy

Slides Session 6

 Francesco Porcelli, University of Warwick, UK

A Four Quadrants Model to monitor the performance of Local Governments

 

Eleonora Carrozzo and Rosa Arboretti, University of Padova,  Italy  Slides

NPC-based Global Indicators for Teaching University Assessment

 

Enrico di Bella, Luca Gandullia, Lucia Leporatti and Marcello Montefiori, University of Genoa,  Italy; Patrizia Orcamo, Regione Liguria, Health Regional Agency, Genoa, Italy  Slides

A multi-indicators approach for comparing Emergency Departments

 

Daria Mendola, University of Palermo,  Italy; Serena Volo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,  Italy

An analytical review of destination competitiveness´ indicators

 

Giulio D'Epifanio, University of Perugia, Italy

Indexing the performance of social agents. An approach based on social planning

 

 

Sept 18^th  11.00 – 12.00, Archivio Antico

Keynote Speech

"Scalability of composite indices: Complexity complications and findings from 15 years of monitoring child and youth well-being in the United States"

 Kenneth Land, Duke University

SLIDES

Sept 18^th  12.00 – 13.30, Archivio Antico

Session 7: Measures of Deprivation

Chair: Kenneth Land, Duke University, USA

Slides Session 7

 Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)  Slides

Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Well-being: an axiomatic and counting approach and its applications

 

Enrique Delamonica, UNICEF, Abuja, Nigeria and Maryam Abdu, UNICEF, Freetown, Sierra Leone  Slides

Multidimensional Child Poverty: from complex weighting to simple representation

 

Marco Fattore, "Milano Bicocca" University, Milan, Italy, and Filomena Maggino, University of Florence, Italy.  Slides

Partial order theory: a new setting for the evaluation of multidimensional poverty and inequality

 

Sept 18^th  12.00 – 13.30, Aula Nievo

Session 8: Households and socio-economic fragility

Chair: Elena Tosetto, OECD

Slides Session 8

Veronica Cappa, Maurizio Carpita and Anna Simonetto, University of Brescia,  Italy  Slides

Latent constructs and composite indicators for measuring well-being of the households living in Brescia

 

Marco Marozzi, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy; Mario Bolzan, University of Padua,  Italy

An index of public service accessibility for households

 

Roberto Casarin, Monica Billio, Michele Costola and Andrea Pasqualini, "Ca' Foscari" University, Venice, Italy  Slides

An entropy-based early warning indicator for measuring systemic risk

 

 

Sept 18^th  14.15 – 16.15 Archivio Antico

Session 9: Methodological concerns

Chair: Tsai Ming-Chang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Slides Session 9

 Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy  Slides

On a Generalized Non-Compensatory Composite Index for Measuring Socio-economic Phenomena

 

Georg P. Mueller, University of Fribourg, Switzerland  Slides

Time Intervals Versus Composite Index Scores: An Alternative Approach for the Measurement of the Socio-economic Development of Countries

 

Tommaso Luzzati and Bruno Cheli, University of Pisa, Italy  Slides

Communicating the uncertainty of synthetic indicators: a reassessment of the HDI ranking

 Brief discussion

 Ludovico Carrino and Silvio Giove, "Ca’ Foscari" University, Venice, Italy  Slides

Making subjectivity explicit: a multidimensional measure of Social Inclusion for European regions with expert-based normalization and aggregation functions.

 

Jan W. Owsiński, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland  Slides

Is there any ‘law of requisite variety’ in construction of indices for complex systems?

 

Simone Del Sarto and Michela Gnaldi, University of Perugia, Italy  Slides

A latent class multidimensional IRT model approach to select most informative items within standardised students’ tests for school restitution.

 

Sept 18^th  14.15 – 16.15, Aula Nievo

Session 10: Theory and methods for well-being measurement

Chair:  Jeroen Boelhouwer, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research

Slides Session 10

 Pasquale De Muro, "Roma Tre" University, Rome, Italy

Consistent multidimensional well-being measurement

 

Maria Rita Sebastiani and Giuseppina Guagnano, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.

Away from dissatisfaction, closer to well-being: A multidimensional synthetic measure

 

Giulio Caperna and Giovanna Boccuzzo, University of Padua, Italy. 

Rainer Brüggemann, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.  Slides

Measuring well-being: poset theory as a tool for synthesis of information from a big set of data.

 

Eugenia Nissi  and Annalina Sarra,  “G. d’Annunzio” University, Pescara, Italy  Slides

A measure of well-being across European countries: An integrated DEA-entropy approach

 

Barbara Cavalletti, University of Genoa, Italy; Matteo Corsi, Giorgio Panella, University of Pavia, Italy  Slides

Consumption, income and subjective well-being: a synthetic indicator of relationship under comparability conditions

 

Sept 18^th  16.15-17.40, Archivio Antico

Session 11: Generalized Software to Compute  Composite Indicators

Chair: Bruno Scarpa, University of Padua, Italy

Slides Session 11

 Organizer: Matteo Mazziotta, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Rome, Italy.

 Marco Broccoli, Giulio Barcaroli, Matteo Mazziotta, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy.  Slides

Web-Ranker: Istat Software to Compute Composite Indicators

 

Pierpaolo Massoli, Matteo Mazziotta, Adriano Pareto and Claudia Rinaldelli, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy.  Slides

COMIC: A tool for composite indices evaluation

 

Francesco Vidoli, "Roma Tre" University, Rome, Italy; Elisa Fusco, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy  Slides

Compind: a Composite indicators functions based on frontiers in R

 

Marco Fattore and Alberto Arcagni, "Milano-Bicocca" University, Milan, Italy  Slides

PARSEC – An R package for Partial Orders in Socio-Economics

 

Sept 18^th  16.15-17.40, Aula Nievo

Session 12: Life-Course, Integration and Wellbeing: Taiwan in Perspective

Chair: Franca Crippa, "Milano Bicocca" University, Milan, Italy

Slides Session 12

 Organizer: Ming-Chang Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Ruey-Ming Tsay and Li-Hsueh Wu, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Retiring in Search for Happiness: Retirement Arrangement and Quality of Life in Taiwan

 

Chun-Hao Li, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; Shu-Yao Hsu, Kang Ning University, Tainan City, Taiwan  Slides

Acculturation and Well-being of Immigrant Brides in Taiwan

 

Ji-Ping Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Slides

Construction of Micro Genealogy as “Social DNA Sequencing” for The Study of Assimilation and Integration: An Approach Using High Performance Computing (HPC) Applied to Cumulated Micro Data Sets of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples