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SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
The SDG 17 index of the Municipal Atlas of the SDGs and its two indicators of municipal finance, local tax revenue and public investment per capita, in 2017.
The SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals) index of the Municipal Atlas of the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolivia 2020 (SDSN Bolivia) for all 339 municipalities, with the two indicators behind it, both for 2017 and from Ministry of Economy and Public Finance data: the share of municipal revenue that comes from local taxes (the rest comes mainly from central-government transfers) and public investment per capita in bolivianos. The index runs from 0 (worst) to 100 (targets met): each indicator is rescaled linearly between a worst and a best value, capped at 0 and 100, and the index is their simple mean. Local taxes are a small share of revenue in most municipalities (median 0.6%), so the index is low across most of the country. The Atlas does not state which population divides public investment. The Atlas population (2020) and urbanization rate (2012) are included as context; they are not inputs of the index.
Variables of sdg17
index_sdg17: Partnerships index (0-100). SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals) 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 2 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: Revenue from local taxes (%); Public investment per capita (Bs). The components refer to different years; the observatory stores the index at 2017, the latest reference year among them.sdg17_1_pmtax: Revenue from local taxes (%). Share of municipal revenues that come from local taxes in 2017 (%), the rest coming mainly from central-government transfers, from the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance. In the SDG 17 index it is normalised linearly between 0 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 40.5 (best; average of the top 5), values beyond the bounds capped.sdg17_5_pipc: Public investment per capita (Bs). Public investment per capita in the municipality in 2017 (bolivianos per person), from Ministry of Economy and Public Finance data. The Atlas does not state which population was used as denominator. In the SDG 17 index it is normalised linearly between 144 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 3563 (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