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Methodology

The description of the methodology can be found here:

König, J. und Ohr, R. (2013). Different Efforts in European Economic Integration: Implications of the EU Index. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.51(6), 1074-1090. doi: 10.1111/jcms.12058.

and even more detailed here:

König, J. und Ohr, R. (2012). Messung ökonomischer Integration in der Europäischen Union – Entwicklung eines EU-Integrationsindexes. cege-Diskussionspapier 135.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.eu-index.uni-goettingen.de/?page_id=693

Indicators

You can download the data that we have used in our JCMS publication here: EU-Index.xlsx You can find the data of the EU-25-Index (updated to 2012) here: EU-25 Index Indicators used in the EU-Index: Single Market EU openness Trade in goods Trade in services Capital movement Labor migration EU importance Trade in goods Trade in …

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Weighting

The indicators and subindixes of the eu-index have been statistically calculated with aid of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The certain weightings can be found here: Weightings. The exact procedure for calculating the weighting is described in: König, J. und Ohr, R. (2013). Different Efforts in European Economic Integration: Implications of the EU Index. Journal …

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