Coverage rates measure childhood access to sanitation services, a key component of the Human Opportunities Index. The data is produced by the LAC Equity Lab to analyze opportunity equality across different circumstance groups in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in sanitation coverage rates across different countries or regions.
- Compare coverage rates for different circumstance groups, such as income or location.
- Calculate the Human Opportunities Index using the coverage rate as a foundational input.
- Model the relationship between sanitation coverage and other development indicators.
Strengths
- Data is derived from a standardized index methodology, the Human Opportunities Index.
- Focuses on a specific and measurable development outcome: childhood sanitation access.
Limitations
- The coverage rate does not account for inequality of access between different circumstance groups.
- Specific row counts, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab
- Collection Method
- Calculated as part of the Human Opportunities Index.
- Geography
- Latin America and the Caribbean