Employing the Components of the Human Development Index to Drive Resources to Educational Policies

Autor/inn/en	Sant'Anna, Annibal Parracho; de Araujo Ribeiro, Rodrigo Otavio; Dutt-Ross, Steven
Titel	Employing the Components of the Human Development Index to Drive Resources to Educational Policies
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 104 (2011) 3, S.523-532 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-010-9759-4
Schlagwörter	Probability; Municipalities; Social Indicators; International Organizations; Indexes; Error of Measurement; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Enrollment; Educational Policy; Individual Development; Resource Allocation; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Magistrat; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Indexdatei; Messfehler; Ausland; Korrelation; Einschulung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Individuelle Entwicklung; Ressourcenallokation; Brasilien
Abstract	A new form of composition of the indicators employed to generate the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is presented here. This form of composition is based on the assumption that random errors affect the measurement of each indicator. This assumption allows for replacing the vector of evaluations according to each indicator by vectors of probabilities of being the best or the worst according to such attribute. The probabilistic composition of such probabilities of preference according to each indicator into probabilities of being the best or the worst according to all of them generates indices that may unveil, on one hand, performances to be followed and, on the other hand, extreme conditions that an additive composition would hide. Differences between the results of application of the diverse forms of composition are examined in the case of the HDI and in the case of the districts version of the HDI employed to compare Brazilian municipalities. It is verified that the smallest correlation between the education enrolment rate and the other indicators in the Brazilian case enlarges such differences. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10