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SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
The SDG 11 index of the Municipal Atlas of the SDGs for every municipality, with its three indicators of housing, sanitation and public transport.
The SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) index of the Municipal Atlas of the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolivia 2020 (SDSN Bolivia) for all 339 municipalities, on a 0–100 scale where 100 means the targets are met. It summarises three indicators: the overcrowding rate and the share of households without a toilet, both from the 2012 Population and Housing Census (INE), and public transport seats per 1,000 people, from the municipal vehicle register (RUAT) and the cable car and municipal bus fleets, labelled 2017 by the Atlas. Each indicator is rescaled to 0–100 between a worst and a best value, capped at the bounds, and the index is the simple mean of the rescaled indicators. Every municipality has all three, but 184 have no registered public transport seats, so that component scores 0 for most of the country. The index is stored at 2017, the latest year of its indicators; the Atlas population (2020) and urbanization rate (2012) are included as context.
Variables of sdg11
index_sdg11: Sustainable cities index (0-100). SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) index of the Municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia 2020, on a 0-100 scale where 100 means the goal's targets are met (best value) and 0 the worst situation. Following the global SDG Index method (Lafortune et al., 2018), each of its 3 indicators is rescaled linearly to 0-100 between a worst value (generally the 2.5th-percentile tail of the municipal distribution) and a best value (the SDG target where one exists, otherwise the average of the five best municipalities, or expert judgement), with the direction set so that higher is always better and values beyond the bounds capped at 0 or 100; the index is the simple (equal-weight) mean of the available rescaled indicators. Components: Overcrowding rate (% of households); Households without a toilet (%); Public transport seats per 1,000 people. The components refer to different years; the observatory stores the index at 2017, the latest reference year among them.sdg11_1_hocr: Overcrowding rate (% of households). Percentage of households living in overcrowding (more than 2 persons per room), 2012, Atlas calculation from the 2012 Population and Housing Census (INE). In the SDG 11 index it is normalised linearly between 55 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 10 (best; average of the top 5), values beyond the bounds capped.sdg11_1_hno: Households without a toilet (%). Percentage of households with no sanitary service, bathroom or latrine, 2012, from the 2012 Population and Housing Census (INE). In the SDG 11 index it is normalised linearly between 94.8 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 5.5 (best; average of the top 5), values beyond the bounds capped.sdg11_2_samt: Public transport seats per 1,000 people. Seats available in collective transport per 1,000 inhabitants: buses, micros and minibuses in the municipal vehicle tax register (RUAT), plus cable cars and the PumaKatari, ChikiTiti and Wayna Bus fleets, divided by population. The Atlas labels it 2017; its definition uses 2017-2019 data. In the SDG 11 index it is normalised linearly between 0 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 843.8 (best; average of the top 5), values beyond the bounds capped.population_2020: Population (persons). Estimated municipal population in 2020 (persons), as printed in the Atlas municipal profiles ("Población estimada, 2020"). The Atlas does not name the source; the 339 values sum to 11,633,371, exactly INE's 2020 national population projection (Revisión 2020 series), so they are presumably INE's municipal projections. Not an input of any goal index. Differs from the gridded WorldPop-based pop dataset.urbano_2012: Urbanization rate (%). Share of the municipal population living in urban areas in 2012 (%), as printed in the Atlas municipal profiles ("Tasa de urbanización, 2012"), from the 2012 Population and Housing Census (INE). INE counts as urban the localities with 2,000 or more inhabitants, which is why 175 municipalities have a rate of 0. Not an input of any goal index (the Atlas treats 15 almost fully urban municipalities as having no applicable farm indicators for SDG 2; 11 of them are 95% or more urban by this rate, while Sucre, Tiquipaya and Potosí are 91–92% and Yunguyo de Litoral 0%).
Sources
- Andersen, L. E., Canelas, S., Gonzales, A., & Peñaranda, L. (2020). Atlas municipal de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en Bolivia 2020. La Paz: Universidad Privada Boliviana, SDSN Bolivia. https://unsdsn.org/resources/municipal-atlas-of-the-sdgs-in-bolivia-2020
- Mendez, C., Gonzales, E., Leoni, P., Andersen, L., & Peralta, H. (2026). DS4Bolivia: A Data Science Repository to Study GeoSpatial Development in Bolivia [Data set]. GitHub. https://github.com/quarcs-lab/ds4bolivia