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Technical Framework for Discussing Governance Indicators Matthew Sudders Policy Analyst, DFID

What is an indicator? • A thing, especially a trend of fact that indicates the state or level of something • A device for providing specific information on the state or level of something.

Source: Oxford English Dictionary ,

From Issue to Indicator • What data can we get?

• What is the issue?

– Input – Process – Output

• How can we get data?

– Who does the monitoring?

– What is their role and values?

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Objective Internal Perception External Perception Discrete scales Additive measures Proxies Composite measure Normative assumptions

Indicator attributes • • • •

Validity Reliability Measurement bias Transparency of production

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Representativeness Variance truncation Information bias Aggregation problems

3 Golden Rules • Use a range of indicators • Use an indicator as a first question – not a last • Understand an indicator before you use it.

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Governance Indicators: A Users’ Guide

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• Publicly available • Enable cross-national comparisons • Provide information about their methodology