On household living conditions. A comparison between capital agglomerations and their popular neighborhoods in Northwestern Argentina

Abstract

Access to basic facilities such as electricity, running water or sewerage is not homogeneous among households in the provincial capitals of Northwestern Argentina. Through the use of the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods (RENABAP) and by calculating a Housing Sufficiency Index, we carried out a gradation in the levels of access to these basic facilities by households residing in these popular neighborhoods, identifying in which agglomeration the situation is more positive and in which the opposite situation is recorded. At the same time, using statistics from the Permanent Household Survey, we carried out the same procedure, but applied to the total number of households in each agglomeration. The comparison of both gradations shows significant differences in some of the capital cities, which reflects the existing urban fragmentation.