Equity and Social Indicators (EQxIS) in Latin America and the Caribbean

EQxIS is an informational tool that presents disaggregated data on social indicators for monitoring development goals. Estimations for four points in time starting from 1990 to the latest available year, use microdata from the Household Surveys Databank of the MECOVI Program and definitions of indicators from the United Nations for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

 

Estimates have been subject to a high level of quality control to increase the level of cross-country comparability and to provide information about their statistical accuracy. The calculations are based on the United Nations standard definitions for the MDG indicators, and use the original microdata from the countries' household surveys.

 

In order to enhance the quality of the data the complete estimation process is as transparent as possible, the definitions for all indicators are included in each table and graph, and the STATA do-files used for the computations are available for downloading. Moreover, in order to indicate the margin of error several statistics of significance are provided for all indicators in each period and country.

EQxIS is an informational tool that presents disaggregated data on social indicators for monitoring development goals. Indicators are disaggregated by income quintile, gender, urban/rural area and race/ethnicity to help identify discrepancies in the achievement of development goals within different groups of population.

 

Estimations for four points in time starting from 1990 to the latest available year, use microdata from the Household Surveys Databank of the MECOVI Program and definitions of indicators from the United Nations for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Statistical significance and methodological details on definitions, methods of calculation, relevant facts about sources of information and complete access to the programs for calculating the indicators are included throughout the website.

 

All indicators presented as part of this research initiative are estimates based on microdata from sample based household surveys. They are not IDB official statistics, are bound to have an implicit sampling error, and are not strictly comparable with estimates from other data sources (census and administrative records).

 

Official indicators should be obtained directly from each country's statistical agency. The indicators presented in were calculated from household surveys and thus have a sampling error associated to them. The statistical standard error for each indicator has been calculated considering the specific sample design of each survey (not by assuming simple random sampling). For this purpose, specific statistical software that considers clustering and stratification was used. However, for some surveys in which variables and/or detailed sample design information were not available, a plausible approximation was made with the microdata on hand.

The % of population, % of population of a specific age group.