Una exploración del índice de condiciones de vida en colombia, bajo la perspectiva de la Econometría espacial

Abstract

This paper explores in spatial terms, some factors that affect both the non-randomness in the subnational distri­bution of the sub-national living con­ditions index, and the existence of large differentials in values between the central municipalities and periphery municipalities. The analysis is limited to the 1116 continental municipalities of Colombia, and using Shape files from the Geographic Information System for Planning and Territorial Ordering, which belongs to Agustin Codazzi Geographic institute. Under the premises of the New Economic Geography and using both univariate and multivariate techniques, exploratory data analysis is performed and using spatial econometrics tools, some mathematical models are formu­lated, specified and estimated. The esti­mation of the optimal proposal suggests that the living conditions index is inver­sely related to the rate of basic needs and directly with both the generation rate equity as with urbanization rate.