Greco Giulia
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH UK.
Soc Indic Res. 2018;135(2):457-478. doi: 10.1007/s11205-016-1502-3. Epub 2016 Dec 28.
Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that encompass the full range of factors that make life worth living. This study is part of a project that aims at developing a multidimensional index based on Sen's capability framework to assess women's wellbeing in rural Malawi: the Women's Capabilities Index. The project identifies a set of capabilities relevant to the context; proposes a methodology to measure robustly these capabilities; aggregates the capabilities into a single metric (index); and validates and tests the index. This paper focuses on the weighting and aggregation of the index. Four weighting methods of aggregation are chosen: two normative approaches; a data-driven approach; and a hybrid method. The different methods have implications on the results which are critically assessed and compared. This study contributes to the literature on the implications of adopting different methods for setting the weights in composite measures of wellbeing.
诸如健康方面的质量调整生命年（QALY）和经济发展方面的人均国内生产总值（GDP）等幸福的标准指标，越来越被认为关注范围过于狭窄。有必要制定多维度的幸福衡量标准，涵盖使生活有意义的所有因素。本研究是一个项目的一部分，该项目旨在基于森的能力框架开发一个多维度指数，以评估马拉维农村地区妇女的幸福状况：妇女能力指数。该项目确定了一组与该背景相关的能力；提出了一种可靠衡量这些能力的方法；将这些能力汇总为一个单一指标（指数）；并对该指数进行验证和测试。本文重点关注该指数的加权和汇总。选择了四种加权汇总方法：两种规范方法；一种数据驱动方法；以及一种混合方法。不同方法对结果有影响，对此进行了批判性评估和比较。本研究为关于在幸福综合衡量中采用不同方法设定权重的影响的文献做出了贡献。
