Education and skills – Regional index

Regional index for the theme Education and skills is based on the indicators Population aged 25-64 with post-secondary education, percentage (%), Population aged 25-64 with at least upper secondary education, percentage (%). 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 standardised indicator values are weighed together into indices at aspect level (the theme is currently based on indicators within one aspect). This is done with averages, all indicators weighed together with the same weight in each aspect. The values are also at this level in the range 0 to 100. 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.