9 e 10 Settembre 2011
Centro Studi Cisl, Firenze
Primo Workshop Internazionale AIQUAV
“Exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity (QoLexity): epistemological, methodological
and statistical issues”
The workshop starts from some reflections and questions …
Classical approaches to evaluation look at complexity as an obstacle to measuring quality of life in effective and practical ways. They draw upon aggregative and compensative tools (e.g., Composite indicators) in order to remove multidimensionality and nuances, in favour of oversimplified measures and representations of quality of life.
But are those measures and representations faithful and useful ones?
Can they be trusted for policy and decision-making purposes?
Or complexity, multidimensionality and nuances are what really matters and should be taken into account in the evaluation and representation process?
The workshop is aimed at gathering social scientists, economists and statisticians to take stock of the situation and discuss issues and possible solutions in exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity.
Organized by Filomena Maggino & Marco Fattore
Supported by
Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze Economiche ed Aziendali – Uni-Bicocca
Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario per i servizi di Pubblica Utilità (CRISP)
Accorded Patronages
PROGRAMME
| September 9 (afternoon) |
| Opening session (15:00-15:15)
Welcome speeches: Filomena Maggino & Marco Fattore |
| Session I (15:15-16:30)
QoLexity in defining: epistemological and conceptual views |
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Chair: Luciano Visentini Professor – Università degli Studi di Firenze . |
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| ALBERTO PERUZZI Professor – Università degli Studi di Firenze |
The uninvited guest: ethics below the complexity of quality – Abstract – Paper |
| GIAMPAOLO NUVOLATI Professor – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca |
Quality of life: Global vs. Local – Abstract – Slides |
| JAN BERNHEIM Professor – Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
How to get serious answers to the serious question: ‘How have you been?’: subjective quality of life (QOL) as an individual experiential emergent construct – Abstract – Slides |
An EU-SILC based composite indicator for material deprivation – Abstract – Slides
| Session II (17:00-19:00)
QoLexity: experiences and applications |
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Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll President – International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Director – Social Indicators Research Centre, GESIS . |
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| CASILDA LASSO DE LA VEGA
Professor – University of the Basque Country, Spain |
Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves – Abstract – Slides – Paper |
| LINDA LAURA SABBADINI & CLAUDIA RINALDELLI
Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT |
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| SABINA ALKIRE University of Oxford JOSE MANUEL University of Oxford |
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MARIA EMMA SANTOS
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas – CONICET
SUMAN SETH
Research Officer at the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford UniversityMultidimensional Poverty Index: New results, time comparisons and group disparities – Abstract – Slides WALTER BOSSERT
Department of Economics and CIREQ, University of Montreal
CONCHITA D’AMBROSIOUniversità degli Studi di Milano – BicoccaMeasuring Economic Insecurity – Abstract – Slides
ROMINA BOARINI
Head – Section Measuring Progress – Statistics Directorate – OECD
Summarizing quality of life through composite indices: highlights from Your Better Life Index – Abstract – Slides
RAINER MUTHMANN
Head of Unit
DB: Quality, methodology and information systems
Unit B-2: Methodology and research
DG EUROSTAT
European Commission
MARLEEN DE SMEDT
EUROSTAT – European Commission
Reflections within the European Statistical System (ESS) on the multidimensional measurement of QoL – Abstract – Slides
| September 10 (morning) |
| Session III (9:00-11:00)
QoLexity in managing measures and analyses: statistical perspectives |
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Chair: Enrico Giovannini President – Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT . |
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| KENNETH LAND
John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demography and Sociology – Duke University – Durham (USA) |
Scalability of Composite Indices of Well-Being – Abstract – Slides |
| STEFANO TARANTOLA
Researcher – European Commission – Joint Research Centre
ELENA GIACHIN RICCA Researcher – Università degli Studi di Roma – Tor Vergata |
Composite indicators of well-being: the relative importance of weights – Abstract – Slides |
| MATTEO MAZZIOTTA, ADRIANO PARETO
Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT |
Assessing quality of regional development from a non-compensatory point of view: measures and graphical representations – Abstract – Slides |
| MARCO FATTORE
Professor – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca FILOMENA MAGGINO Professor – Università degli Studi di Firenze |
Evaluation is not aggregation: assessing material deprivation through partial order theory – Abstract – Slides |
| STEFANO DE FRANCISCI, MICHELE FERRARA, ANTONIO PITRONE
Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT |
Investigating the complexity of reality with geo-analytics tools – Slides |
| Session IV – Roundtable (11:30-13:00)
QoLexity in managing decisions, between approximation and realism: |
| Chair: Leonardo Morlino
President – International Political Science Association Professor – School of Government, LUISS Guido Carli
Participants:
Enrico Giovannini President – Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT Giampaolo Nuvolati Professor – Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
Matteo Ricci President – Province of Pesaro-Urbino
Donato Speroni Journalist – Teaching at the Urbino School Of Journalism
Luciano Visentini Professor – University of Florence |
ARTICLES IN THE WEB (in italian)
La qualità della vita, dalle misure alla politica
September 9 – DOWNLOAD zip
September 10 – DOWNLOAD zip
| PHOTO GALLERY |
