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<journal-id>2448-6442</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Estudios sociológicos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Estud. sociol]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-6442</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[El Colegio de México A.C., Centro de Estudios Sociológicos]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-64422024000100118</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24201/es.2024v42.e2380</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Propuesta metodológica para un índice compuesto transversal no compensatorio con variables predeterminadas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A Methodological Proposal for a Non-Compensatory Cross-Sectional Composite Index with Predetermined Variables]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Treviño Cantú]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jesús A.]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Nuevo León]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<volume>42</volume>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-64422024000100118&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-64422024000100118&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-64422024000100118&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: El estudio calcula y mide la estabilidad de cuatro índices compuestos ampliamente utilizados en la literatura socioeconómica: Análisis de Componentes Principales (ACP), Distancia de Pena (DP2), Índice Mazziotta Pareto (MPI) y Media Geométrica (MG). La investigación propone una estandarización balanceada (zEB) que re-escala las variables a igual máximo y mínimo entre ellas, por ende, a un mismo intervalo, y mantiene la asimetría en un nivel estadístico aceptable. El caso del rezago social en las entidades federativas de México en el año 2020 muestra que la MG es el índice de agregación más estable con una zEB, ponderada o no ponderada. Además, la MG es un índice conceptualmente coherente por ser formativo y no compensatorio, como corresponde a la naturaleza del fenómeno estudiado.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: This study calculates and measures the stability of four composite indices widely used in the socioeconomic literature: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Pena&#8217;s Distance (DP2), the Mazziotta Pareto Index (MPI), and the Geometric Mean (GM). The research proposes a balanced standardization procedure (zEB) that rescales variables to have the same maximum and minimum values between variables, and therefore the same interval, maintaining asymmetry at within an acceptable statistical level. The case study of social backwardness in the states of Mexico in 2020 shows that the GM is the most stable aggregation index either with weighted or unweighted zEB. In addition, the GM is a conceptually coherent index because it is formative and not compensatory, as befits the nature of the phenomenon studied.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[social backwardness]]></kwd>
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