A Web-based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior

Event history calendars (EHCs) are frequently used in social measurement to capture important information about the time ordering of events in people’s lives and enable inference about the relationships of the events with other outcomes of interest. To date, EHCs have primarily been designed for face-to-face or telephone survey interviewing, and few calendar tools have been developed for more private, self-administered modes of data collection. Web surveys offer benefits in terms of both self-administration, which can reduce social desirability bias, and timeliness. We developed and tested a web application enabling the calendar-based measurement of contraceptive method use histories. These measures provide valuable information for researchers studying family planning and fertility behaviors. This study describes the development of the web application and presents a comparison of data collected from online panels using the application with data from a benchmark face-to-face survey collecting similar measures (the National Survey of Family Growth).

Some Critical Reflections on the Measurement of Social Sustainability and Well-Being in Complex Societies

The aim of this discussion paper is to raise awareness of the conceptual and practical limits of mainstream practices in social measurement and to suggest possible directions for social indicator construction, in view of effectively supporting policies for social sustainability and well-being promotion. We start with a review of the epistemological issues raised by the measurement of social phenomena, investigate the notion of social complexity, and discuss the critical link between it and measurement. We then suggest that social indicators should be primarily designed to build structural syntheses of the data, unfolding the patterns and stylizing the complexity of social phenomena, rather than computed pursuing numerical precision, through hardly interpretable aggregated measures. This calls for tools and algorithms capable of rendering structural information, preserving the essential traits of complexity and overcoming the limitations of classical aggregation procedures. We provide some examples along this line, using real data pertaining to regional well-being in OECD countries.

Sustainable Policies for Supply Chain During the Digital Economic Crisis Due to Epidemics

One of the most exciting issues in the digital economy has been sustainability supply chain management. There are many articles on this area and several different viewpoints. This work focuses on assessing the sustainability of supply chain management based on two main measurements. Firstly, the value of ecological, environmental, and social measurement indicators and the extent of the challenge in collecting information. The objective of this article is to improve the precision of the assessment. A Sustainable Policies for Supply Chain Management (SP-SCM)is proposed in this article. The suggested framework is a synthesis of quality function deployment (QFD) with plithogenic set grouping processes.A summation function is applied: the perception of the decision-maker of criteria required to assess the viability of the supply chain, the measurement criteria dependent on the specifications, and the difficulties in collecting details. This research submitted a real-world test case on the sugar industry to test the proposed framework. In evaluating the sustainability of the supply chain policy, the findings revealed the performance efficiency of the proposed system.

Measuring political legitimacy with Twitter: Insights from India’s Aadhaar program

As emerging powers forge ahead with big data initiatives, questions arise regarding the implications of these programs for governance in the Global South more broadly. One understudied aspect deals with how actors attribute legitimacy to governments’ big data activities. We explore actors’ agency in one crucial case: the world’s largest demographic and biometric data program, India’s Aadhaar. Analyzing roughly 250,000 tweets collected in the first 10 years of Aadhaar’s operation, we find that both normative acceptance and cost–benefit calculations are crucial for legitimacy attribution. This finding challenges mainstream theoretical approaches, which prioritize normative factors and often fail to examine how normative and material factors interact during legitimacy attribution. In addition, our study demonstrates a new, mixed-methods approach to measuring legitimacy attribution using Twitter data, which overcomes traditional challenges. As such, we underline the viability of Twitter data as a tool for social measurement.

Ahorro económico, eficiencia energética y proyección inferencial. Análisis de series de tiempo en celdas fotovoltaicas

This literature work includes the phenomenon of the socioeconomic situation of the residents of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who have solar panels as a savings mechanism for their homes and as a tool that contributes to their well-being. The research focuses on the economic flow of residents in relation to energy expenditure and surplus. The approach to the problem is due to the lack of an economic and social measurement system in relation to the energy expenditure of the housewith solar panels in extreme weather in the city of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Therefore, the research question was established: How much energy savings does the use of solar panels represent in the families of Victoria, Tamaulipas? For the elaboration of the hypothesis, the Cruz-Ardilla theory (2013), was necessary, which maintains that energy plays an important role in society since it allows access to technological and social advances in resources that provide greater comfort; In this same tenor, Díaz (2015), ensures that technological strategies for sustainability have an economic purpose transforming the territory and; as a last assumption according to Elías and Bordas (2012), which indicates that 44% of primary energy worldwide becomes useless. Thus, the hypothesis is: Energy savings with the use of solar panels in the homes of families in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico is equivalent to 40 percent.

The Effect of Social Network on Retail Buying Behaviour in Chennai City

Retail is one of the significant sectors in India seeking attention for the investment. It is also approaching a lot of foreign direct investment. A blast of societal mass media networks, in the last decade has erupted tradition information seeking in market. Online networking, for example, Face book twitter, you tube, and Google has added another social measurement to the web. This paper depends on impact of web based life on retail purchasing conduct.