Tools for social policy management: the SiSo Scale for measuring situations of social difficulty

The design and evaluation of social policies requires information systems that enable social intervention with the people targeted by the programmes and services and that also offer indicators for the follow-up and monitoring of the policies adopted. The article presents the process of validation of...

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Published in:Journal of social policy 2023-04, Vol.52 (2), p.376-395
Main Authors: RAYA DIEZ, ESTHER, FUMANAL, AURELIO LASCORZ
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decision making
Employment
Immigrants
Inclusion
Information systems
Information technology
Intervention
Labor market
Measures
Medical diagnosis
Poverty
Property
Regional government
Social conditions & trends
Social exclusion
Social fund
Social policy
Social services
Social systems
Validity
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Summary:The design and evaluation of social policies requires information systems that enable social intervention with the people targeted by the programmes and services and that also offer indicators for the follow-up and monitoring of the policies adopted. The article presents the process of validation of a tool for diagnosing situations of social difficulty arising from social exclusion. The scale has been implemented in one of Spain’s seventeen Autonomous Communities and has been selected on the basis of Good Practice under the European Social Fund. Expert judges were consulted for content validity; the metric properties of the scores obtained by the scale were examined and an exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) was performed to study the internal structure. The results show that the scale has adequate levels of content validity, construct validity and internal consistency. The SiSo Scale supplies a synthetic index of Social Position, providing professionals with the technical tools needed to carry out social diagnoses and simultaneously giving valid and reliable information on the social condition of people in a situation of social exclusion, which can guide social policy decision-making.
ISSN:0047-2794
1469-7823
DOI:10.1017/S0047279421000684