This proof-of-concept project undertook a systematic analysis of SDGs targets and indicators’ interlinkages in State of the Environment (SoE) reporting, applying the scientific assessments to support the Commissioner for Environment Sustainability, Victoria. Different approaches analysed to devise the fit-for-purpose methodologies for understanding the interlinkages between selected SDG targets and indicators.
Methodology
In this Research three steps developed to measure the SDGs’ interlinkages and identify the significance and direction of these interlinkages. Those steps are a) measurement; b) analysis; c) identifying the causality of the targets’ interlinkages.
Data Sources
Two sets of data used in this proof-of-concept project. First, data extracted from the United Nations Website-SDG Indicators Database for Australia.
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database
The result for this setting is 9,816 observations which extracted and saved as CSV file. Through a filtering process we identified that out of the total dataset, 316 of the observations had no data.
Assumptions: To select the data, assumptions regarding Data Type, Temporal, Gender, Age, Generic Data, had to be made to filter the data that fit for the purpose of Model using in this proof of concept.
The second source of data is Word Bank Data for Australia (https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0037918/Sustainable-Development-Goals)
The data were used basically to fill the gap for the indicators with no data on the previous resource.