Indicadores Locales y Políticas Públicas. Experiencias y desafíos

Abstract

This article reviews the concept of indicators and indices with territorial breakdown, the methodological challenges that their use and construction entails, and the use of these indicators based on a selection of experiences. For the governance and health of democracy, the availability of good social indicators is an important condition. Access to data and information about small spaces (urbanizations, neighborhoods, slums) should be a challenge on which we should put effort, as a means of making visible inequality, poverty, health, education, habitat, and other problematic areas. The averages of the national figures tend to hide disparities and heterogeneities. Disaggregated measurements make such inequalities visible, providing a valuable resource for both institutions and people, as development agents.