CEA MCI-Index: Municipality Composite Index

The CEA MCI Index is giving overall base for comparison among Macedonian LSG. It facilitates targeting for decision makers not only for the central government but for the donor community as well. CEA believes that the CEA MCI Index will be useful for the local governments and officials in making strategy and development plans as well as making comparisons among themselves and boosting competition among them in Macedonia.

The CEA MCI Index is based on 28 variables as presented in the following illustration:

CEA Municipality Composite Indicator MCI

Composite population index

Composite index of economic development

Composite index of social infrastructure

Composite index of communal infrastructure

1.      Aging index

2.      Annual population growth

3.      Total birth rate

4.      Migration net

5.      VA of non-financial sector

6.      Growth rate of VA in non-financial sector

7.      Unemployment rate

 

8.      Education
-  Illiteracy rate
-  Number of students in tertiary education

9.      Health
- Physicians
- Infant mortality
- Deaths by tuberculosis

10.  Culture
- Cinema performances
- Public cultural objects

11.  Youth at risk
- Youth unemployed
- Convicted juveniles

12.  Democracy
- Candidates for LSG per elected counselor in LSG
- Number of NGO

13.  Gender equality
- Female activity rate
- Elected female in LSG as a share in total elected

14.  Roads

15.  Telephone subscribers

Thus, you can choose to see the scores among the separate indices and/or the composite MCI:

1. Composite population index
2. Composite index of economic development
3. Composite index of social infrastructure
4. Composite index of communal infrastructure
5. CEA Municipality Composite Indicator MCI

Ranking system

The ranking system is aimed at assessing the socio-economic performance of Macedonian LSG.

The corresponding number of classes according the Sturges’ rule is illustrated in the next table:

NUTS

NUTS 3

NUTS 4

NUTS 5

Units

8

34

123

Number of classes
(in accordance with Sturges’ rule)

4

6

8


Number one rank illustrates best performance thus, the higher the rank the worse the performance.

Statistics available for each of the variables:

Min
Max
Average
Coefficient of variation

Available at:

NUTS 3 (8 regions)
NUTS 4 (34 LSG)
NUTS 5 (123 LSG)