Print Email Facebook Twitter Measuring housing system performance: Is a composite indicator a useful instrument? Title Measuring housing system performance: Is a composite indicator a useful instrument? Author Haffner, M. Lennartz, C. Dol, K. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Date 2012-05-23 Abstract Housing outcomes are predominantly compared in terms of individual indicators, in-cluding such items as quality or affordability measures, where the outcomes of the individual measures are often not linked in a preceding research step. However, the creation of a composite indicator of housing outcomes, in which these individual measures are integrated, might facilitate the understanding of large amounts of in-formation and most importantly might help to communicate research findings to a wider, non-expert audience, including policy-makers. Nonetheless, the methodological problems and challenges of the construction of composites are manifold and the interpretation of a composite indicator may not be easy or even misleading. This paper engages in the discussion about methodological problems by recapitulating the process of constructing and applying a composite in-dicator of housing outcomes for a pilot project on public sector performance in a large number of EU countries using the EU-SILC database. Subject European Unionhousing affordabilityhousing qualityovercrowdingEU-SILC To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7e266f30-f525-426e-a0b3-c0bae0db3353 Source OTB Working papers 2012-08 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2012 Haffner, M.Lennartz, C.Dol, K. Files PDF OTB_Working_papers_2012-0 ... rmance.pdf 1.39 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7e266f30-f525-426e-a0b3-c0bae0db3353/datastream/OBJ/view