The JRC assessment1 of the SDG Gender index 2019 focuses on two main issues: the statistical coherence of the hierarchical structure of indicators (section 2) and the impact of key modelling assumptions on the SDG Gender index ranking (section 3). It involves three steps: In the first step, the main descriptive statistics of the data are shown, and an initial data analysis is performed to detect missing values and potential outliers. In the next step, the statistical coherence is examined through a multilevel analysis of the correlations of the indicators and between the indicators and the index. Finally, in the last step, the robustness of the index and the impact of key modelling assumptions to the index ranking are tested.
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