A comparison of the EuroQol and the Health Utilities Index in patients treated for congenital anomalies

Stolk, Elly; Busschbach, Jan

doi:10.1007/s101980100058

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“…Many political scientists are familiar with the concept, and a key article on measurement validity was published in the American Political Science Review in 2001 (Adcock and Collier, 2001). Economists who deal with the development of measures of constructs have also been concerned with construct validity, particularly in work on measures of contingent valuation and economic education (see, for example, Meyer, 1995;Laughland et al, 1996;Carson et al, 1998;Kealy et al, 1988;Stolk and Busschbach, 2001;Girjalva et al, 2002).…”

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What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?

2009

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As policymakers and researchers focus more on the question of the impact of governance in economic development, they have required measures of the quality of governance to set policy or to conduct analyses. A number of measures of the quality of governance have been created. Among these are the Worldwide Governance Indicators, which rank countries on six aspects of 'good governance'. Critics have focused on problems of bias or lack of comparability that raise questions about the utility of these indicators. However, a more fundamental question is that of whether the indicators have 'construct validity' -whether they measure what they purport to measure. This paper considers the construct validity of the indicators and raises the question of whether researchers and policymakers are relying on wrong data, rather than poor data.Les responsables politiques et les chercheurs ont besoin de mesures concre`tes de la qualite´de la gouvernance afin de pouvoir de´terminer l'impact de celle-ci, en particulier par rapport au de´ve-loppement e´conomique. Un certain nombre d'indicateurs ont re´cemment e´te´cre´e´s, parmi lesquels les Indicateurs de gouvernance dans le monde de la Banque Mondiale, qui classent les pays a`partir de six crite`res de ) bonne gouvernance *. L'utilite´de ces indicateurs a e´te´mise en question pour des raisons de distorsion ainsi que des proble`mes de manque de comparabilite´. Cependant, une question plus fondamentale est celle de la validite´the´orique de ces indicateurs, c'est-a`-dire, s'ils mesurent ce qu'ils pre´tendent mesurer. Cet article conside`re la validite´conceptuelle de ces indicateurs et cherche ad e´terminer dans quelle mesure les chercheurs et les responsables politiques ne sont pas en train de se baser sur des donne´es fausses, plutoˆt que des donne´es insuffisantes.

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