World Bank Gender Statistics provides survey data on the percentage of respondents aged 15 and older who report making regular payments for water, electricity, or trash collection. The dataset measures personal financial responsibility for essential utilities. The data is collected and published by the World Bank's Gender Statistics team.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between utility payment rates and demographic variables like age and gender.
- Compare payment rates across different utility types: water, electricity, and trash collection.
- Track changes in personal financial responsibility for utilities over time using survey year data.
- Model the percentage of paying respondents as a function of geographic or economic indicators.
Strengths
- Data focuses on a specific demographic: respondents aged 15 and older.
- Captures behavior for three distinct utility types: water, electricity, and trash.
Limitations
- The dataset is a single aggregated percentage metric, lacking individual respondent records or raw survey data.
- No sample size, row count, or geographic coverage details are provided.
- The temporal coverage and update frequency are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Gender Statistics
- Collection Method
- Survey data collection.