Developing Social Indicators

Developing indicators for European birds.

The global pledge to deliver 'a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010' is echoed in a number of regional and national level targets. There is broad consensus, however, that in the absence of conservation action, biodiversity will continue to be lost at a rate unprecedented in the recent era. Remarkably, we lack a basic system to measure progress towards these ta...

Indicators for Social Cohesion

Difficulties of Developing and Using Social Indicators to Evaluate Government Programs: A critical review

Victoria University in conjunction with Crime Prevention Victoria (CPV) received an ARC grant to investigate the relationships between crime prevention and community governance. The first task of the project was to develop a framework, linking community needs, community capacity, wellbeing and CPV interventions, which guide selection of social indicators and then compile a database of data from...

Social indicators and venereal disease.

Developing Indicators of Educational Contexts in Timss

TIMSS collects a vast amount of information aimed to provide a context to better understand education systems around the globe. This paper discusses how this background information can be reported using three real examples from the 1999 assessment. These examples illustrate the main concepts and steps involved in reporting background data, while presenting methods and statistical techniques tha...