This README.txt file was generated on <2023-07-03> by <Ana Garcia-Bernabeu>



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GENERAL INFORMATION

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Title of Dataset: < Quality of life composite indicators for EU countries>



Author Information 



	Principal Investigator: Garcia-Bernabeu, Ana, Univesitat Polit�cncia de Val�ncia, Plaza Ferr�ndiz y Carbonell, s/n, angarber@upv.es, 0000-0003-3181-7745.

	Associate or Co-investigator: <Reig-Mullor, Javier, Universidad Miguel Hern�ndez, Avda. Universidad s/n, 03202 Elche, Spain, javier.reig@umh.es, 0000-0002-1595-0581>
	Associate or Co-investigator: Pla-Santamaria, David, Univesitat Polit�cncia de Val�ncia, Plaza Ferr�ndiz y Carbonell, s/n, dplasan@upv.es, 0000-0003-1563-3997.
	Associate or Co-investigator: Salas-Molina, Francisco, Univesitat Polit�cncia de Val�ncia, Plaza Ferr�ndiz y Carbonell, s/n, frasamo@upv.es, 0000-0002-1168-7931.



Date of data collection: <2023-06-30>



Geographic location of data collection: <Alcoy, 38.70545 - (-0.47432.)>



Information about funding sources or sponsorship that supported the collection of the data: < >



General description: <Quality of Life indicators raw data for EU countries during the period 2028-2020 and partial results when applying a fuzzy muticriteria approach to construct a composite index> 



Keywords: <Quality of life, composite indicators, data uncertainty, picture fuzzy set, ranking, economic performance>





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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

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Open Access to data: <Open = datos accesibles en abierto>



Date end Embargo: <>



Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: <Open Data Commons>



Citation for and links to publications that cite or use the data: <>



Links/relationships to previous or related data sets: <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality-of-life/data>



Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: <>





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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

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File list: <QoL_Data_Results (main folder), DATA.xlsx (file 1 with raw data), PICTURE FUZZY AHP.xlsx (file 2 with partial results of weights from experts opinions), RANKINGS.xlsx (file 3 with rankings obtained for EU countries)>



Relationship between files: <>



Type of version of the dataset: <>



Total size: <3.6 MB>







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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: <The raw data was retrieved from Eurostat Database on Quality of Life (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality-of-life/data), the first partial results related with weights were obtained by appying a picture-AHP methodology. The final composite �ndex is computed by applying diferent MCDM approaches such as MARCOS, TOPSIS and EDAS >



Methods for processing the data: <DPartial results data have been generated using excel>



Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: Excel Version 16.74



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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION   

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Number of variables: 44 single indicators



Number of cases/rows: 27 countries 



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