%0 Journal Article %T Determining Weight for Multicriteria Indexes %A Abdul Aziz Jemain %J Matematika %D 2004 %I Universiti Teknologi Malaysia %X This paper discusses methods determining weight for each criterion used in the development of an index representing social indicators. Examples to show computing for weights are also given. Data for percent of household in all districts in the country, obtained from 1991 census, of that owned defined facilities such as car, radio, television, telephone, washing machine, and air-condition are used as example how such weights were computed %K Multicriteria %K correlation %K communality %K entropy. %U http://www.fs.utm.my/matematika/images/stories/matematika/200420107.pdf