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Measuring - Understanding the Context - What Matters - for Community Prosperity Metrics in Calgary

6 Apr 2022

13 we fall into is the quick answer that well, what matters is what can we measure? The economy! But that [takes us] into all kinds of strange stories and all kinds of self-deception.” – Colin Jackson 5 Almost sixty years following the introduction of the GNP, the Therefore, a critical challenge of problem solving is a United Nations launched the Human Development Index need to deconstruct the sys. [...] By understanding the system, managers in the 1990s, contributed to the emergence of new indicators at the widget company will have the evidence essential to and new data to provide an increasingly multi-dimensional allocate its scarce resources (time and money) to enhance view of community prosperity. [...] In the same way for Economic Development’s (OECD) Better Life initiative, that molecules are a collection of atoms that together create which in turn is built on the findings of the 2009 report by the something new, a domain is collection of different indicators commission on the measurement of economic performance that paint picture that is different from each indicator in and social progress21. [...] Tandem to understanding in exchange for a high quantity of data can muddle the the collective values of a community is defining the current application of the model, making it a poor representation of barriers preventing advancement towards shared goals. [...] But it could change next year.’” – Sara Bateman 17 Connecting to the SDGs Interpretation of Data In the interests of following global standards there should be There also needs to be an understanding of the terms used a level of incorporation, or at the very least consideration, of in the model and an explanation as to why data is structured the SDG’s.
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