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In the Spotlight

Policy Implications of POINT – Policy Influence of Indicators, a pan-European research project

Composite indicators (CIs) combine information from a number of separate indicators into one. Designing such indicators entails unavoidable trade-offs between technical excellence and simplicity needed to convey the ideas represented by the indicator. CIs are meant to be picked-up and promoted by non-specialists, including the mass media. Newspapers in particular have been shown to be influential with regard to environmental issues such as global warming, but much of their impact may depend upon the extent as well as the continuity of reporting. Furthermore, little is known about the extent to which CIs have been reported in newspapers. As part of the work package 5 (WP5) of the POINT project, an analysis was conducted on the extent to which such indicators are indeed pickedup by the popular press in the UK, and the ‘use’ that the press makes of the indicators.

Progress Articles/Papers

• Statistics, Knowledge and Governance, September 29-30, 2008, Enrico Giovannini, Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Michela Gamba, Paper from Workshop “Committing Science to Global Development” Lisbon, Portugal

• Progress on Sanitation & Drinking Water: 2010 Update, WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Report, March 2010
  

• Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox, 2008, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
• Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness, Luis Rayo, University of Chicago and Gary S. Becker, University of Chicago and Hoover Institution
  
• (Un)Happiness in Transition 2008, Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, New Economic School; Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
• International Evidence on Well-Being, David G. Blanchflower, National Bureau of Economic Research, UK
• Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty, 2008, Johannes Schwarze, University of Bamberg, Berlin
• The broad basis of societal progress, 2008, Stefan Bergheim, Deutsche Bank Research, Germany
  
• Does Globalization affect Human Well-Being?, 2007. MING-CHANG TSAI
• Well-being and/or quality of life in EU countries through a multidimensional index of sustainability, 2007, Alba Distaso, Department of Economics, University of Bari, Italy
• Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development, 1998, Donella Meadows, The Balaton Group
• Basic Guide to the World Population, 1960 to 2003, Changes and trends 2005, The Global Social Change Research Project
• Basic Guide to the World, Quality of Life Throughout the World, 2005, The Global Social Change Research Project

• Social Indicators: What We Need To Make Them Count, Marc L. Miringoff, PhD, Marque-Luisa Miringoff, PhD, Sandra Opdycke, PhD
• The State of the Art in Indicators Construction. In the perspective of a comprehensive approach in measuring well-being of societies 2009 Maggino, Prof. Filomena
• Moving from a GDP-Based to a Well-being Based Metric of Economic Performance and Social Progress: Results from the Index of Economic Well-Being for OECD Countries, 1980-2009 Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards