Poverty is a multidimensional, fuzzy and complex phenomenon that cannot be faithfully represented by mono-dimensional monetary indicators. In the last years, much research has been devoted to tackle poverty fuzziness, while less attention has been paid to poverty complexity. In this paper, we...

Partial Order Theory has been recently more and more employed in applied science to overcome the intrinsic disadvantage hidden in linear ranking, if a multiple indicator system is available. Despite its numerous positive features, there are many practical cases where the interpretation of the...

The jointly use of two latent factors methods is proposed to assess a measurement instrument for underlying phenomena. In particular the decay status of valuable Italian buildings is quantified on the basis of a wide set of observed categorical variables. At the purpose, Rasch analysis is used...

A procedure for the construction of an indicator in the presence of structured missing data is proposed. In particular, we face the problem of creating a ‘measure’ of the damage degree of valuable historical-architectonical buildings on the basis of the observation of several ordinal...

We propose the setting-up of an indicator for classifying European countries with relation to consumers' satisfaction for services of general interest. Services considered are fixed telephone service, electricity supply, railways and postal service. The reference data set is the 2002 Standard...

This paper aims to classify eighteen European regions on the basis of various criteria which reflect the overall performance of services of general interest, as perceived by consumers. The analysis is based on the Eurobarometer survey carried out in 2002, at the request of the European...