JRC Statistical Audit on the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2013
The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) aims to summarise complex and versatile concepts related to human capital and talent competitiveness at the national scale in 118 countries worldwide. In so doing, it raises some conceptual and practical challenges, which are discussed in the GTCI 2017 report. This chapter focuses on the practical challenges related to the data quality and the methodological choices made in the grouping of 65 variables into 14 sub pillars, six pillars, two sub indices, and an overall index.