Open AccessSocial Sustainability Measurement for Venezuela During 2007–2009
Author(s) -
Josseny Ciarrochi,
Anna Gabriela Pérez,
Francklin Rivas-Echeverría
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.37394/232022.2022.2.7
Subject(s) - sustainability , barometer , social sustainability , dimension (graph theory) , environmental economics , environmental resource management , geography , environmental science , mathematics , economics , ecology , meteorology , pure mathematics , biology
In this research an indicator of social sustainability for Venezuela was designed using a statistical methodology, using information from the sustainable development social dimension for each of the Venezuelan states during 2007-2009. For building the social sustainability indicator (SSI) it was used the first two principal components obtained from the analysis for each year and as aggregation method the sum of components was used. The resulting values of social sustainability indicator is decomposed into 5 levels in similar way to the sustainability barometer and federal entities with the corresponding SSI level were assigned.