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Composite indicators. What??

EU social scientists produce composite indicators to condense vast amounts of information into one figure which enables comparison between countries.  

How do we measure innovation, science, government, GNP, globalisation, education, poverty level, unemployment, jobs...? Watch this explanation to find out how scientists combine all of this information to get results and understand the world around us.

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