Non-Monetary Indicators to Monitor SDG Targets 1.2 and 1.4. Standards
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ISSN 1680-8789 SERIES STATISTICS Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4 Standards, availability, comparability and quality Maria Emma Santos Thank you for your interest in this ECLAC publication ECLAC Publications Please register if you would like to receive information on our editorial products and activities. When you register, you may specify your particular areas of interest and you will gain access to our products in other formats. www.cepal.org/en/suscripciones 99 Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4 Standards, availability, comparability and quality Maria Emma Santos This document has been prepared by María Emma Santos, Consultant, under the supervision of Pablo Villatoro, Senior Statistics Assistant, and Xavier Mancero, Chief of the Social Statistics Unit of the Statistics Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). For the preparation of the document, inputs and comments were kindly provided by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), as implementing entities of the component “Poverty, including multi-dimensional poverty, and inequality statistics and indicators”, in the framework of the Programme on Statistics and Data of the tenth tranche of the United Nations Development Account. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. United Nations publication ISSN 1680-8789 (electronic version) ISSN 1994-7364 (print version) LC/TS.2019/4 Distribution: L Copyright © United Nations, 2019 All rights reserved Printed at United Nations, Santiago S.18-01161 This publication should be cited as: M.E. Santos, "Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4: standards, availability, comparability and quality", Statistics series, No. 99 (LC/TS.2019/4), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2019. Applications for authorization to reproduce this work in whole or in part should be sent to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Publications and Web Services Division, [email protected]. Member States and their governmental institutions may reproduce this work without prior authorization, but are requested to mention the source and to inform ECLAC of such reproduction. ECLAC – Statistics Series – No. 99 Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG... Contents Abstract ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 9 I. The habitat and built environment sphere................................................................................. 17 A. Housing .................................................................................................................................. 19 1. Housing materials .......................................................................................................... 19 2. Overcrowding................................................................................................................. 26 3. Housing tenure ............................................................................................................... 30 4. Durable goods ................................................................................................................ 37 B. Basic services ......................................................................................................................... 41 1. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) ......................................................................... 41 2. Access to clean energy ................................................................................................... 53 3. Solid waste collection and nearby sources of contamination ......................................... 59 4. Transportation ................................................................................................................ 62 II. The affiliation sphere ................................................................................................................... 69 A. The education dimension ....................................................................................................... 71 1. Child school attendance and adult schooling achievement ............................................ 72 B. The employment and social protection dimension ................................................................. 81 1. Indicators and standards ................................................................................................. 82 2. Data availability ............................................................................................................. 87 3. Discussion and recommendations .................................................................................. 92 C. The health dimension ............................................................................................................ 93 1. Indicators and standards ................................................................................................. 93 2. Data availability ............................................................................................................. 98 3. Discussion and recommendations ................................................................................ 102 III. Concluding Remarks ................................................................................................................. 103 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 105 3 ECLAC – Statistics Series – No. 99 Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG... Annexes .................................................................................................................................................. 117 Annex 1 Acronyms ...................................................................................................................... 118 Annex 2 Summary of recommendations by dimension ............................................................... 119 Statistics Series: issues published ....................................................................................................... 124 Tables Table 1 Indicators used in national, regional and global MPIs .......................................................... 12 Table 2 Selected non-monetary indicators of poverty ........................................................................ 15 Table 3 Number of countries and surveys covered in DAPI .............................................................. 15 Table 4 List of countries with at least one household survey considered in DAPI ............................ 16 Table 5 International standards on housing materials and typical survey question – floor ................ 21 Table 6 International standards on housing materials and typical survey question – roof ................. 21 Table 7 International standards on housing materials and typical survey question – walls ............... 22 Table 8 Housing questions used in developing countries similar to EU-SILC questions .................. 23 Table 9 Data availability on non-monetary poverty indicators, part I number of surveys considered with available information .................................................................................. 24 Table 10 Summary of indicators of overcrowding most commonly used ............................................ 29 Table 11 UN-Habitat tenure indicators at the household level ............................................................. 32 Table 12 Urban Inequities Survey (UIS) core tenure questions ........................................................... 33 Table 13 UN-Habitat (2011) tenure indicators combining document type and the formality/informality of the tenure form ............................................................................... 34 Table 14 MICS questions on tenure ..................................................................................................... 35 Table 15 LSMS (2000) questions within the housing module on dwelling expenditures .................... 35 Table 16 EU-SILC questions on housing tenure .................................................................................. 37 Table 17 LSMS recommended durable goods sub-module .................................................................. 40 Table 18 DHS and MICS questions on durable goods ......................................................................... 40 Table 19 EU-SILC questions on durable goods ................................................................................... 41 Table 20 DHS and MICS water source response categories ................................................................ 48 Table 21 DHS and MICS toilet facility response categories ................................................................ 49 Table 22 Hygiene module implemented in DHS and MICS ................................................................ 51 Table 23 Data