Interpretability of Composite Indicators Based on Principal Components

Table 3

Descriptive statistics.

Pillar	Input ID	Min	Mean	Max	SD
Panel A: Uganda data set
ABS	1	0.00	0.72	1.00	0.45
	2	0.00	0.83	1.00	0.38
	5	0.29	1.06	3.57	0.66
	6	0.02	0.16	0.83	0.14
	7	0.11	0.66	2.86	0.55
AST	1	0.00	0.46	1.05	0.18
	2	–0.46	0.27	1.36	0.29
	3	0.00	0.44	7.14	0.98
	4	0.03	1.23	7.50	1.48
SSN	1	0.00	0.51	1.00	0.50
	2	0.00	5.24	106.85	13.48
	3	0.00	4.93	25.94	5.97
	4	0.00	0.18	24.90	1.39
AC	1	0.00	6.16	15.00	3.17
	2	0.05	0.50	1.00	0.22
	4	0.00	1.48	5.00	0.89
	5	0.00	2.96	18.00	2.18
	6	0.00	0.70	1.00	0.46
Panel B: Chad data set
ABS	1	0.00	0.41	1.00	0.49
	2	0.00	0.50	1.00	0.50
	3	0.00	0.02	1.00	0.13
	4	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.06
	8	0.00	0.18	0.44	0.10
AST	1	–1.13	–0.02	4.32	0.21
	2	–1.21	–0.02	8.82	0.32
	3	0.00	0.40	20.00	0.77
	4	0.00	0.57	55.46	2.17
SSN	2	0.00	0.49	1.00	0.50
	3	0.00	0.03	1.00	0.16
	5	0.00	0.18	1.00	0.06
AC	2	0.11	1.22	12.00	0.95
	3	0.00	0.34	1.00	0.47
	4	0.00	0.43	1.00	0.13