Civic engagement and democratic participation – Regional Index

The Regional Index for the theme of Citizen Engagement and Democratic Participation is based on the indicators Voting participation in the most recent regional elections, percentage (%), electoral districts with the lowest turnout in the last regional elections, percentage (%), women by chair positions in the region, share (%), population aged 16-84 with low social participation, share (%). The KPIs are normalised so that all regions’ values are placed on a scale from 0 to 100 where 0 is the worst and 100 is best (for some indicators, inverted scale is used). In the next step, the normalised indicator values are weighed together into indices at aspect level (currently, the theme is based on indicators in three aspects). This is done with averages, all indicators weighed together with the same weight in each aspect. Then the index at aspect level is weighed together to the thematic level according to the same principle and these values also fall between 0 and 100. The weighting is equal for all aspects of the theme.