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AUTHOR(S):

Josseny Ciarrochi, Anna Gabriela Pérez, Francklin Rivas-Echeverría

TITLE

Measuring Social Sustainability in Venezuela through Synthetics Indicators

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KEYWORDS

sustainability indicators, sustainable development, sustainability barometer, principal
components, distance.

ABSTRACT

In this work it was used a statistical methodology for obtaining an indicator of social sustainability for Venezuela. It was used information from the sustainable development social dimension for each of the Venezuelan states during 2007-2009. For building the social sustainability indicator (SSI) it was used the first two principal components obtained from the analysis for each year and as aggregation method the sum of components was used. The resulting values of social sustainability indicator is decomposed into 5 levels in similar way to the sustainability barometer and federal entities with the corresponding SSI level were assigned. It’s proposed, the use of the Euclidean distance, for determining the optimal setting proximity. An interesting relationship between the value of SSI and distance is found.

Cite this paper

Josseny Ciarrochi, Anna Gabriela Pérez, Francklin Rivas-Echeverría. (2016) Measuring Social Sustainability in Venezuela through Synthetics Indicators. International Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1, 48-54