Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4: standards, availability, comparability and quality
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- Santos, Maria Emma
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- 2019-02-13
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- Serie Estudios Estadísticos
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- 99
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This report offers a review of 14 non-monetary indicators of poverty to monitor progress towards the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. The reviewed indicators are housing materials, overcrowding, housing tenure, durable goods, access to safe water and improved sanitation, access to clean sources of energy, garbage collection and nearby sources of contamination, (public) transportation, child attendance to school and adult schooling, employment, social security and access to health care.
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