Abstract:

The first objective of the study is to identify the importance of the components according to the EU countries in the framework of the values of the components that make up the EU countries’ Social Development Index (SGE) for 2020. The second objective of the study is to measure the performance of the country’s social development. Finally, the third objective of the study is to assess the extent to which the country’s social development performance can be explained by the Entropic-based MAUT method within the framework of the country’s SGE values. Method - The importance of the SGE components according to the EU countries is explained by the methods of the Pearson correlation ratio of Entropi, the country’s social development performance is explained by the Entropi-based MAUT and the country’s social development performance is explained by the Entropi-based MAUT method in the SGE framework. The first three most important SGE components for the countries, respectively, are CAP (Capsulation), SAE (Health) and IEE (Access to Advanced Education), and the first three countries with the most social development performance, respectively, Greece, Sweden and Finland. It is also observed that the country’s overall performance of social development is high. In addition, the country’s SGE values have come to the conclusion that the country’s social development performance can be explained in general according to the Entropic-based MAUT method. Discussions - The comprehensive and detailed identification of countries’ social development performance will bring countries to awareness of their own and each other’s social development performance. Thus, thanks to this awareness, countries will be able to do their activities more meaningfully and efficiently in determining and improving their social policies. According to this, the European Union countries can improve their performance of social development by giving importance and priority to the components of the GDP, Right and EEA. In terms of methodology, the performance of social development of the countries can be discussed by measuring more multi-critical decision-making methods and the consistency and disconnections between the values identified within the framework of the methods.

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