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The purpose of this indicator is to measure the proportion of the population living in households with access to basic services to assess progress towards achieving SDG 1.4, ‘By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance’. This indicator provides essential data on households’ access to basic services, which is critical for understanding the extent to which populations have access to reliable and safe basic services. By monitoring this indicator, policymakers, stakeholders, and organizations can make informed decisions to promote sustainable development and address challenges in providing access to basic services. This indicator helps to ensure that all individuals, especially those in vulnerable and marginalized communities, have access to basic services, thereby contributing to the overall objective of sustainable, inclusive, and equitable growth.

This indicator measures the proportion of the population living in households with access to basic services to monitor progress towards SDG 1.4, ‘By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance’. It is defined as the proportion of the population using public service provision systems that meet basic human needs including drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, energy, mobility, waste collection, health care, education, and information technologies. The relevance of this indicator lies in its ability to provide critical data on households’ access to basic services, which is essential for understanding public health and quality of life. The data for this indicator is collected through household surveys, and it is a combination of various components of basic services which on their own are mostly existing as standalone indicators of the SDGs. By tracking this indicator, stakeholders can gain valuable insights into the extent to which populations have access to safe and reliable basic services, enabling them to make informed decisions to promote sustainable development and address the challenges in providing access to basic services.

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

Annual

Percentage (%)

-            Indicator definition - The proportion of population living in households with access to basic services is defined as the proportion of the population using public service provision systems that meet basic human needs including drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, energy, mobility, waste collection, health care, education, and information technologies. The basic services indicator is therefore based on 9 components. These components are captured in various standalone indicators of the SDGs, which means that the concepts and definitions of SDG indicator 1.4.1 will be derived from or are the same as those of these specific SDG indicators.

-            Geographical coverage: National

-            Data collection method: Household surveys and Census.

-            Data availability: Annual (LFS), Census (Every ten years)

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This indicator is a combination of various components of basic services which on their own are mostly existing as standalone indicators of the SDGs. As a result, the team of experts advised and agreed that these should be presented as a dashboard. Their metadata provide the specific methodologies for computing each of the constituent measures used to report on this indicator.

Data presentation

Individual components of access to basic services will be computed separately from various data sources over the years. However, the dashboard is configured to display the most recent data points, but with the possibility to visualize data for earlier years through a drilled down access. Data will be presented or visualized as a dashboard but with the possibility to map it out through various visualization tools such as spider web and stellar charts of the achievement of access to different basic services in a country through plotting the various components of the indicators. In this way, policy makers can be informed of most needed intervention areas for any region and country.

By collaborating with civil society, and the private sector to provide innovative solutions to pressing citizen needs, the Government will be able to provide basic services to people living in households without access to basic services.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.