research: social progress index for relation to resilience

[bbest]

Hi @katlongo and @jules32,

Just flagging this for future exploration. Check out the updated 2014 dataset with indicators per country (as well as indicator definitions on 2nd worksheet):

• Social Progress Index
  • Basic Human Needs
  • Nutrition and Basic Medical Care
  • Water and Sanitation
  • Shelter
  • Personal Safety
  • Foundations of Wellbeing
  • Access to Basic Knowledge
  • Access to Information and Communications
  • Health and Wellness
  • Ecosystem Sustainability
  • Opportunity
  • Personal Rights
  • Personal Freedom and Choice
  • Tolerance and Inclusion
  • Access to Advanced Education

Input datasets

• Undernourishment (% of pop.)
• Depth of food deficit (calories/undernourished person)
• Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)
• Stillbirth rate (deaths/1,000 live births)
• Child mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)
• Deaths from infectious diseases (deaths/100,000)
• Access to piped water (% of pop.)
• Rural vs. urban access to improved water source (absolute difference between % of pop.)
• Access to improved sanitation facilities (% of pop.)
• Availability of affordable housing (% satisfied)
• Access to electricity (% of pop.)
• Quality of electricity supply (1=low; 7=high)
• Indoor air pollution attributable deaths (deaths/100,000)
• Homicide rate (1= <2/100,000; 5= >20/100,000
• Level of violent crime (1=low; 5=high)
• Perceived criminality (1=low; 5=high)
• Political terror (1=low; 5=high)
• Traffic deaths (deaths/100,000)
• Adult literacy rate (% of pop. aged 15+)
• Primary school enrollment (% of children)
• Lower secondary school enrollment (% of children)
• Upper secondary school enrollment (% of children)
• Gender parity in secondary enrollment (girls/boys)
• Mobile telephone subscriptions (subscriptions/100 people)
• Internet users (% of pop.)
• Press Freedom Index (0=most free; 100=least free)
• Life expectancy (years)
• Non-communicable disease deaths between the ages of 30 and 70 (probability of dying)
• Obesity rate (% of pop.)
• Outdoor air pollution attributable deaths (deaths/100,000)
• Suicide rate (deaths/100,000)
• Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 equivalents per GDP)
• Water withdrawals as a percent of resources
• Biodiversity and habitat (0=no protection; 100=high protection)
• Political rights (1=full rights; 7=no rights)
• Freedom of speech (0=low; 2=high)
• Freedom of assembly/association (0=low; 2=high)
• Freedom of movement (0=low; 4=high)
• Private property rights (0=none; 100=full)
• Freedom over life choices (% satisfied)
• Freedom of religion (1=low; 4=high)
• Modern slavery, human trafficking and child marriage (1=low; 100=high)
• Satisfied demand for contraception (% of women)
• Corruption (0=high; 100=low)
• Women treated with respect (0=low; 100=high)
• Tolerance for immigrants (0=low; 100=high)
• Tolerance for homosexuals (0=low; 100=high)
• Discrimination and violence against minorities (0=low; 10=high)
• Religious tolerance (1=low; 4=high)
• Community safety net (0=low; 100=high)
• Years of tertiary schooling
• Women's average years in school
• Inequality in the attainment of education (0=low; 1=high)
• Number of globally ranked universities (0=none; 5= >50)

Although not WGI, here's what it says about the Human Development Index from its 2013 report (see http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/publications)...

"The Social Progress Index is designed as a holistic view of a country’s social progress encompassing a wide range of outcomes that matter to people’s lives and are relevant at all income levels. There is, not surprisingly, a strong correlation between Social Progress Index scores and Human Development Index scores. By including life expectancy and educational standards, HDI provides a broader assessment of a country’s level of development than GDP alone. See Figure 5."

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Katie Longo longo@nceas.ucsb.edu wrote: thanks BB, interesting. I wonder how it differs from WGI...

On May 5, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Ben Best bbest@nceas.ucsb.edu wrote:

Bumped into this index by way of NY Times articles America the Shrunken and We're not No. 1!.

Social Progress Index The Social Progress Index offers a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress, benchmarking success, and catalyzing greater human wellbeing.

The index or its component data may be relevant to OHI resilience and alludes to the type of green accounting index beyond GDP that Chris Costello mentioned on retreat. Founded by Harvard economist Michael Porter in its 2nd year now.

BB

[bbest]

Migrated to https://github.com/OHI-Science/issues/issues/185