The proposed methodology for assessing the system of indicators of the region financial and production structure includes 8 main components. The purpose of the study: to propose a scientific and ...methodological approach to assessing the region, taking into account the financial and production structure. The calculated indicators characterize how the region is provided with financial and production factors, as well as how financially stable and independent it is.
Social media represent an excellent opportunity for the construction of timely socio-economic indicators. Despite the many advantages of investigating social media for this purpose, however, there ...are also relevant statistical and quality issues. Data quality is an especially critical topic. Depending on the characteristics of the social media a researcher is using, the problems that arise related to errors are different. Thus, no one unique quality evaluation framework is suitable. In this paper, the quality of social media data is discussed considering Twitter as the reference social media. An original quality framework for Twitter data is introduced. A reformulation of the traditional quality dimensions is proposed, and the new quality aspects are discussed. The main sources of errors are identified, and examples are provided to show the process of finding evidence of these errors. The conclusion affirms the importance of using a mixed methods approach, which involves incorporating both qualitative and quantitative evaluations to assess data quality. A collection of good practices and proposed indicators for quality evaluation is provided.
Measuring Well-Being Lee, Matthew T; Kubzansky, Laura D; VanderWeele, Tyler J
05/2021
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This edited volume explores conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Given the bewildering array of measures available and ambiguity regarding when and how to measure particular ...aspects of well-being, knowledge in the field can be difficult to reconcile. Representing numerous disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, public health, theology, and philosophy, contributors consider the philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being, and the good life, as well as recent empirical research on well-being and its measurement. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, they explore how research can help make sense of the proliferation of different measures and concepts while also proposing new ideas to advance the field. Some chapters engage with philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being, and the good life; some evaluate recent empirical research on well-being and consider how measurement requirements may vary by context and purpose; and others more explicitly integrate methods and synthesize knowledge across disciplines. The final section offers a lively dialogue about a set of recommendations for measuring well-being derived from a consensus of the contributors. Collectively, the chapters provide insight into how scholars might engage beyond disciplinary boundaries and contribute to advances in conceptualizing and measuring well-being. Bringing together work from across often siloed disciplines will provide important insight regarding how people can transcend unhealthy patterns of both individual behavior and social organization in order to pursue the good life and build better societies.
Social Indicators Research (SIR) year by year has consolidated its preeminent position in the debate concerning the study of all the aspects of
quality of life
. The need of a journal focused on the ...quantitative evaluation of social realities and phenomena dating back to the seventies, when a new branch of Social Science—called
Social Indicators Research
—came into the international scientific landscape. This paper aims at reviewing the whole collection of publications appeared on SIR from 1989 to 2018, providing a complete overview of the main factor that affected the journal in the last 30 years. The approach followed to analyse this extensive
corpus
of documents relies upon the theoretical framework of bibliometric studies.
In 2010, EUSOMA published a position paper, describing a set of benchmark quality indicators (QIs) that could be adopted by breast centres to allow standardised auditing and quality assurance and to ...establish an agreed minimum standard of care. Towards the end of 2014, EUSOMA decided to update the paper on QIs to consider and incorporate new scientific knowledge in the field. Several new QIs have been included to address the need for improved follow-up care of patients following primary treatments. With regard to the management of elderly patients, considering the complexity, the expert group decided that, for some specific quality indicators, if centres fail to meet the minimum standard, older patients will be excluded from analysis, provided that reasons for non-adherence to the QI are specified in the clinical chart and are identified at the review of the clinical records. In this way, high standards are promoted, but centres are able to identify and account for the effect of non-standard treatment in the elderly. In the paper, there is no QI for outcome measurements, such as relapse rate or overall survival. However, it is hoped that this will be developed in time as the databases mature and user experience increases. All breast centres are required to record outcome data as accurately and comprehensively as possible to allow this to occur. In the paper, different initiatives undertaken at international and national level to audit quality of care through a set of QIs have been mentioned.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), adopted in September 2015, are accompanied by targets which have to be met individually and collectively by the signatory states. SDG14 Life ...Below Water aims to lay the foundation for the integrated and sustainable management of the oceans. However, any environmental management has to be based around targets which are SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bounded – otherwise it is not possible to determine whether management actions are successful and achieve the desired aims. The discussion here shows that many of the targets adopted for SDG14, and especially a detailed analysis of Target 1, are aspirational rather than fully quantified. In order to move towards making the targets operational, we advocate merging the language of environmental management with that used by industry for linking risks to the environment, management performance and ensuing controls. By adopting an approach which uses Key Performance Indicators (‘KPIs’), Key Risk Indicators (‘KRIs’) and Key Control Indicators (‘KCIs’), we advocate that a degree of rigour leading to defendable actions can be brought to marine management.
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With the rapid development of aerospace frontier technology and the gradual improvement of its application impact, it is particularly necessary to track and analyze the development and ...evaluation of frontier technology. In the process of a comprehensive evaluation, the rationality and weight of evaluation indicators determine whether the evaluation is effective. In this paper, the relevant evaluation index system is constructed through a comprehensive analysis of various factors of aerospace frontier technology. The weight of the index is calculated by the combination of DEMATEL and ANP to judge the interaction and importance of the indexes and make the evaluation results more accurate and reliable.
Sustainable tourism indicators (STIs) are an integral element of tourism planning and management. This study systematically reviews the research contributions on the development of STIs based on four ...criteria including: i) the relevance of the STIs to the sustainable development goals (SDGs); ii) governance; iii) stakeholders involved; and iv) the distinction between subjective and objective indicators. A search of Scopus indexed journals published up to April 2018, yielded 97 papers for examination. The findings demonstrate the lack of direct attention to the SDGs in those papers published after their launch in 2016. However, the majority of the SDGs and their targets have indirectly been covered in the reviewed papers. The results revealed that, among the sustainability themes of economic growth, social inclusion, environmental protection, and governance, the STIs studies tended to overlook the dimension of governance. The findings showed that residents are the most engaged stakeholder group, and tourists the least engaged as compared with government and businesses. The results also indicated that more attention is afforded to objective compared to subjective indicators. The findings also demonstrated that much of the focus is on European countries rather than the Global South which is the major focus of the SDGs.
•This research presents new theoretical insight which will augment the promulgation of leading indicators’ use in safety management.•An extensive and thorough literature analysis is conducted using ...two consecutive data analysis methods viz. thematic and content analyses.•A new theoretical explanation of leading and lagging indicators is proffered which incorporates safety management dynamics.•The work serves to engender renewed polemic debate and discussion on how to create a step change in safety performance improvement in the workplace.
With the aim of developing a new theoretical insight which will augment the promulgation of leading indicators’ use, this present research studies pertinent literature. Associated study objectives are to: 1) generate insight into potential challenges, use and benefits of adopting leading indicators in safety management from pertinent literature; and 2) elucidate upon existing abstruseness between safety leading and lagging indicators. For an extensive and thorough literature analysis, two consecutive data analysis methods are adopted (viz., thematic and content analyses). Through thematic analysis, 13 clusters (each representing different uses of leading indicators) emerged, from which the ‘health and safety’ cluster was selected for a deeper analysis in content analysis. In addition, by reviewing the compendium of leading indicator examples collected from extant safety leading indicator literature, novel types of dichotomous leading indicators were identified, viz., generic and specific leading indicators. Subsequently, a synthesis of challenges and benefits of safety leading indicator adoption was generated through deductive content analysis. Furthermore, a new theoretical explanation into the relationship of safety leading and lagging indicators is proffered which also incorporates safety management dynamics representing different levels of safety maturity. This study constitutes a first attempt to: provide a structured synthesis of safety leading indicators’ functions along with their challenges in development, implementation and adoption stages; shed a new light into the theoretical explication of safety lagging and leading indicators’ relationship; and introduce safety management dynamics that establish different levels of safety maturity.
