Synthesis of statistical indicators to evaluate quality of life in the Italian province

Name: Synthesis of statistical indicators to evaluate quality of life in the Italian province
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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STATISTICA & APPLICAZIONI

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Open Access

Title

Synthesis of statistical indicators to evaluate quality of life in the Italian province

Authors

Roberto Gismondi, Massimo Alfonso Russo

Publisher

Vita e Pensiero

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01-2008

Issn

1824-6672 (print) | 2283-6659 (digital)

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This work remarks the need to carefully evaluate the real importance of each variable used in a multivariate analysis context, with particular regard to cases when an overall performance ranking is the main final purpose. In particular, both a preliminary transformation of variables – aimed at reducing asymmetry and variability of their variation ranges – and the evaluation of their intrinsic explicative power – through redundancy analysis and weighting methods – are proposed. Theoretical and empirical considerations are developed in the frame of quality of life evaluation, carried out at the Italian provinces level on the basis of a yearly survey managed by the Italian economic newspaper ‘‘Il Sole24ore’’. A particular emphasis is given to some normalisation criteria and the case when original variables are grouped ‘‘a priori’’ into logical blocks. A final comparison between the actual ranking method and a series of alternatives is proposed as well.

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