Monitoring the main aspects of social and economic life using composite indicators. a literature review

The aim of this project is to research and analyze the main indicators used at the international level to study and monitor equity and inclusion, relevant aspects of social and economic life. In detail, the focus of the work concerns the main measures, both present in literature and produced by international institutions, which allow an analysis of these phenomena from an international comparative perspective. The study presents the sources of data of such different measures and the conceptual and methodological steps to produce them. Moreover, a significant section of the research assesses the statistical methodologies to deal with the complexity of multidimensional systems of indicators and to synthesize them. The project includes an overview of indicators used in the language policy area, including language education and multilingual public administration, and of databases used to populate these indicators.