A New Measure of Transport Disadvantage for the Developing World Using Free Smartphone Data

Francisco Benita

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 145, issue 1, No 18, 415-435

Abstract: Abstract Based on data from a free of cost smartphone app, this paper presents a methodology to compute and integrate six transport disadvantage indicators into a widely used measure of social exclusion in Mexico, namely, social backwardness index (SBI). It is presented the case of Zacatecas metropolitan area as an example. The results are obtained through Latent Class Analysis and Principal Component Analysis, comparing the effect of transport disadvantage on SBI. A major improvement over the official methodology is that the novel measure can be computed for highly spatially disaggregated units of analysis such as neighborhoods and urban blocks.

Keywords: Social backwardness index; Social exclusion; Transport disadvantage; Metropolitan areas; Developing countries; Smartphone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-019-02107-x

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