Social Backwardness in Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Francisco Benita

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2016, vol. 126, issue 1, 160 pages

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology for estimating the index of social backwardness by urban blocks at Mexico City Metropolitan Area. The index, originally developed by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy is a measure that seeks to establish differences between geographical areas located in the same region. The area of interest is inhabited by more than 20 million people assuming to be heterogeneous in their levels of quality of life. By closely following the official guidelines and by using the Population and Housing Census 2010, the obtained results are surprising. The urban block estimation suggests a 10.1 % of total population suffering from a high degree of social backwardness, contrary to the official measurements which sets it out around 0.3 %. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Keywords: Social backwardness; Small area statistics; Metropolitan area; Geographical targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-0889-6

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