Advanced & Applied Topics · Social & Demographic Indicators

Social Indicators: Sources of Information and Data Production

Public introduction · full guide in Eikos

Introduction

What this guide covers

A systematic, mathematical and epistemological analysis of the design of social metrics, the optimization of complex sampling and the analytical frameworks of official statistics.

Overview

Topics covered

  • Introduction
  • Introduction and Epistemological Framework of Social Indicators
  • Historical Evolution and Movement of Social Indicators
  • Structural Typologies of Indicators
  • Required Psychometric and Metric Properties
  • Complex Indicator Construction Methodology

Related concepts

Main connections

  • Mean & expected value
  • Variance & standard deviation
  • Survey sampling methods
  • Linear algebra & matrices
  • Unsupervised learning & clustering
  • Epidemiological measures & risk ratios

Compatible notation

Mathematical sample in LaTeX

The expression is rendered accessibly, with its LaTeX source preserved below.

𝒞≈ψ(I(𝐗))+ϵ
View LaTeX source\mathcal{C} \approx \psi(I(\mathbf{X})) + \epsilon