Measuring relative sub-national human development: An application of the United Nation's Human Development Index using geographic information systems

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 253-269

  Porter, Jeremy R ^a   Purser, Christopher W ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human development; Spatial analysis; Spatial statistics; US

Indexed keywords

GIS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 58149383793     PISSN: 07479662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jem-2008-0307     Document Type: Article

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