What is it about?
Composite indicators (such as e.g. Rule of Law, Freedom of press,...) ultimately aim to ‘tell a story’, e.g. to promote the social discovery of a particular phenomenon, seen from a particular perspective. We attempt a less partisan use of a composite indicators, to see if one can can be built to tell ‘more than one story’. We try this approach on a couple of examples: cohesion policy in the European Union and the World Bank Index of Doing Business.
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Why is it important?
Composite indicators are ubiquitous, and often presented by their proponents as objective. This is hardly ever the case.
Perspectives
One can modify the philosophy of composite indicators from ‘analysis cum advocacy’ to ‘analysis with multiple storytelling’. In other words, one can cope with a situation in which different stakeholders agree on the importance of evidence and the need to use statistical data, while disagreeing on what is important and what end should be pursued.
Professor Andrea Saltelli
University Pompeo Fabra, Barcelona School of Management
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This page is a summary of: Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator, Social Indicators Research, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02276-0.
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