Calidad de vida urbana

Diego Azqueta (diego.azqueta@uah.es) and Luis Alfonso Escobar Jaramillo
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Luis Alfonso Escobar Jaramillo: Dpto. de Ingeniería de Recursos Naturales y del Ambiente. Universidad del Valle

EKONOMIAZ. Revista vasca de Economía, 2004, vol. 57, issue 03, 216-239

Abstract: In spite of the media attraction that the elaboration of the different urban life quality’s indices enjoys, the sure thing is that a systematic and rigorous construction of those indices can provide a useful tool, of chief importance, for the municipal manager. So it is important, not only to identify those relevant variables at the time of explaining life quality of a determined environment —comparing to others— but also measuring it according to an appropriate scale and weigh it up tactfully. The study exposes a methodology to elaborate these indices, based on the Principal Components Analyses and illustrates its application with the elaboration of environmental quality index of the different neighborhoods of Cali, a town of Colombia.

Keywords: análisis de componentes principales; calidad de vida; entorno urbano; precios hedónicos; índice de calidad ambiental (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 H53 Q51 R15 R19 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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