Simplifying the Water Poverty Index

Autor/inn/en	Cho, Danny I.; Ogwang, Tomson; Opio, Christopher
Titel	Simplifying the Water Poverty Index
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 97 (2010) 2, S.257-267 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9501-2
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Computation; Water; Cost Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Environment; Correlation; Indexes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Wasser; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Ausland; Umwelt; Korrelation; Indexdatei
Abstract	In this paper, principal components methodology is used to derive simplified and cost effective indexes of water poverty. Using a well known data set for 147 countries from which an earlier five-component water poverty index comprising of "Resources," "Access," "Capacity," "Use" and "Environment" was constructed, we find that a simplified three-component composite index comprising of "Access," "Capacity," and "Environment," with unequal weights, or its two-component counterpart comprising of "Capacity" and "Environment" with equal weights, would be more cost-effective to construct without much loss of information. These simplified indexes have high positive and negative correlations with the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index, respectively. (As Provided).
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