Abstract
When developing social indicators, a method is needed to transform each variable into units ona common scale so that they can be compared and combined. Recently, this issue has become commonto performance measurement and program evaluation, because they use so many outcome measures manyof which are a kind of social indicators. In order to analyze the outcome of programs, it is often necessary to compare the indicators in a common framework.
We review the method for converting the indicators used in the new social indicators developedby the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan to evaluate the outcome of structural reform in Japan, and propose another method of conversion which are applicable to performance measurement and program evaluation.
