Calculating the HDI of a City?

[avk996 0]

I'm just wondering if there's any way I could calculate the HDI of one of my cities or regions...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

I would like to help you out but what is HDI?? What does that mean??? Someone teach me.

[Liszak 48]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

 

[Alex_Bervoets 91]

HDI is the "Human Development Index": a statistic used to rank countries by the level of it's "human development" based on "life expectancy" x "education" x "income"

The formula can be found on that link that Liszak gave.

Better use that calculator

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Thank you guys for helping, I know guys saying this guy is dumb, but I don't know everything. lol

[Alex_Bervoets 91]

Oh and I think you have to use the highest value on the planet to calculate your own indexes. So you can't just calculate the HDI of your city unless you use some numbers to compare them to.

[astronelson 339]

From my understanding of the index, and the mechanics of SC4...

First, the Life Expectancy Index. In the city, go to the Life Expectancy graph. If your life expectancy is below 85, subtract 25 and divide by 60. If your life expectancy is equal to or above 85, the value for this index is 1.

Second, the Education Index. This is harder to calculate, but I would guess go to the education graph, divide your education by 200 and you should have a decent estimate.

Third, the Income Index. Take the logarithm of your residential average income (to the nearest thousand should be fine), subtract the logarithm of 163, and divide this by the difference between the logarithm of 108,211 and the logarithm of 163. If your residential average income income is greater than 108,211, this index will be 1.

Finally, calculate the HDI by taking the cube root of the product of these. If all goes to plan, you should have a number less than 1.

Using this, I got a HDI of 0.922 for a city in my region, which places it 3rd, between Australia and New Zealand.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

I don't thing there such a thing, but hold up you can look at the carts in the game, heres a small image, sorry for the picture to be not so good but my computer is mess up and I got the image from google.

There is a modd on sc4devotion.com it called Regional Data Viewer , you can look at the decrptions here.

After reading what astronelson said you may not need this. This is just some extra stuff I use in the game.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Thank you very much, Nelson, for this approximation. Too bad that the game doesn't provide all the data we need to calculate the HDI with the official formula. To keep things simple, the formula written by astronelson should look like this:

 

• If LE = 85, the first term is equal to 1.

This formula can be simplified in a variety of ways without losing many precision, but there's no simplification making the calculation much more easier than this, as it will always involve the Income Index logarithm.

[mightygoose 92]

thats awesome.... now if some can make that into a query... lol

[avk996 0]

Thanks guys for your help

Just wondering though... How would you convert simoleons to dollars? Has this been put into account?

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[astronelson 339]

I'd guess the amount stated on the "Residential Average Income" graph is in (something close to) dollars, rather than the much more expensive simoleon.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Considering the low amount of money you get for developing a city, I'd say that the Simoleon is equal to the 1930 U.S. dollar.  Those were the good old days when eggs were twelve cents a dozen, bread was a nickle a loaf, and so on.  Jobs were non-existent though, so finding the couple of dollars you needed to feed yourself for a week or so was a problem.  The economy of SimCity is as close to the Great Depression as you can get.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I always use the "mental conversion" 1 simolean = 1,000 dollars on SC4...

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

Thanks everyone!This is very useful!