[Yourtopia] Yourtopia2 conceptual questions

Thu Mar 22 00:05:23 GMT 2012

Thanks, Guo. I now understood how the index was built.

On 21 Mar 2012, at 23:42, Guo Xu <guo.xu at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Marian,
> 
>> - Is the sequence of questions always the same, regardless what
>> weights the user sets?
> Yes, the sequence should be regardless of the weights the user sets.
> 
>> - How are the presets/defaults chosen? When I skip to question 2, why
>> is GNI per capita set to 100%? And in question 3. life expectancy at
>> birth? --> doesn't this cause a bias? Wouldn't it be good to have an
>> equal weight as the default?
> Yes, this does cause a default bias. The reason why we have decided on
> these defaults is that these are the standard weights set in the Human
> Development Index (HDI). In this way, we "nest" the HDI as a special
> case of the Yourtopia index.
> 
>> - Right now, the document "Key indicators of Italian progress" > Sheet
>> "Series" shows 21 criteria and a fourth category "Crime". How will the
>> criteria have to be grouped in the quiz sequence? How many questions
>> will we end up with?
> As far as I have understood it, the criteria are grouped into
> different categories. In Yourtopia 1, for example, we had three
> categories:
> 
> 1) Economy 2) Health 3) Education
> 
> For each of the category, we ask for the weight (a, b, c)
> 
> Each of the category has 3 variables, and we also poll these weights:
> (a1,b1,c1); (a2,b2,c2); (a3;b3;c3).
> 
> We then sum up and aggregate the index for each variable:
> 
> a*(a1*value1+b1*value2+c1*value3)+b*(a2*value4+b2*value5+c2*value6)+c*(a3*value7+b3*value8+c3*value9).
> 
> I hope this makes sense?
> 
> Guo
> 
> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Marian
>> 
>> 
>> As a reference, this is the quiz sequence of the current implementation
>> 
>> 1.
>> What is the relative importance you attach to each of the following:
>> - Economy
>> - Health
>> - Education
>> 
>> 2.
>> What is the relative importance you attach to each of the following:
>> - Household final consumption expenditure PPP (constant 2005 international $)
>> - GNI per capita PPP (constant 2008 PPP US$)
>> - Long-term unemployment (% of total unemployment)
>> - Poverty headcount ratio at $1.25 a day (PPP) (% of population)
>> 
>> 3.
>> What is the relative importance you attach to each of the following:
>> - Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)
>> - Mortality rate infant (per 1000 live births)
>> - Life expectancy at birth total (years)
>> - Unmet need for contraception (% of married women ages 15-49)
>> 
>> 4.
>> What is the relative importance you attach to each of the following:
>> - Mean years of schooling (adults aged 25 years and above)
>> - Public spending on education total (% of GDP)
>> - Expected years of schooling - primary to tertiary (children of
>> school entrance age)
>> - Researchers in R&D (per million people)
> 
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