UN-Habitat data on urban housing deprivation in El Salvador, measuring the proportion and total population living in slums based on four key shelter deprivations: lack of improved water, sanitation, sufficient living area, and durable structure. The dataset also includes a measure of housing affordability, calculated as households spending over 30% of income on housing. It was produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling the prevalence of informal settlements based on the four defined shelter deprivations.
- Analyzing housing cost burdens in urban areas using the expenditure-to-income ratio metric.
- Benchmarking urban development progress against UN-Habitat's standardized indicators.
- Mapping spatial inequality by correlating slum population totals with other geographic data.
Strengths
- Based on UN-Habitat's standardized methodology for measuring slum conditions.
- Includes two distinct metrics: slum prevalence and housing affordability burden.
- Published under the permissive PDDL-1.0 license for open use.
Limitations
- Excludes the fifth deprivation indicator, security of tenure, due to stated data limitations.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and sample data are unavailable, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Data and Analytics Section
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from national surveys and statistical reports using UN-Habitat's deprivation criteria.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-06 22:52:31.093800; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- El Salvador, likely at national and possibly regional levels.