MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT OF SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS’ CONDITIONS BASED ON HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED INDICATOR SYSTEMS Cover Image

MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT OF SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS’ CONDITIONS BASED ON HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED INDICATOR SYSTEMS
MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT OF SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS’ CONDITIONS BASED ON HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED INDICATOR SYSTEMS

Author(s): Romualdas Ginevičius
Subject(s): Micro-Economics, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Economic development
Published by: Fundacja Centrum Badań Socjologicznych
Keywords: multi-criteria assessment methods; hierarchically structured indicator systems;

Summary/Abstract: The adequacy of multi-criteria assessment largely depends on how comprehensively an indicator system reflects a phenomenon under consideration. If the number of indicators is large, experts cannot adequately evaluate the indicator weights. As a result, the scope of calculations increases significantly, but the accuracy drops. This problem can be solved by forming a hierarchically structured indicator system. Multi-criteria assessment of such systems is started from the lowest hierarchical level where the values of the related indicator groups are estimated, and then they turn into the indices of a higher hierarchical level. Same procedure is repeated until a value representing the condition of a phenomenon under consideration is obtained.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 256-266
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English