Overview of the Trinidad and Tobago
Human Development Atlas 2012

3 February 2012

 

The Trinidad and Tobago Human Development Atlas 2012 is a joint effort of UNDP Trinidad and Tobago and the Trinidad and Tobago Central Statistical Office (CSO) to map present human development indicators in Trinidad and Tobago. The collection of maps, the first of its kind for this country, provides an in-depth and spatially disaggregated analysis of development trends across all administrative areas.

 

 

Building on the concept of human development, this Atlas includes the calculation of a number of composite indicators including the first National Human Development Index, the Inequality-adjusted National Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index and the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index for Trinidad and Tobago. Data used in the Atlas comes from official government owned national surveys and statistics covering the period from 2006 to 2010. The 68 maps included in the Atlas are organized in three broad categories:

 

Human Development Maps:

 These maps provide an overview of key aspects of human development at the country level and disaggregated by the 15 regional corporations.

 

Millennium Development Goals:

 MDGs maps have been produced by analyzing data collected by the Household Budget Survey, 2008-2009; the 2010 Population, Social and Vital Statics and the Multiple Indicator or Cluster Survey (MICS) 3 of 2006. These maps illustrate levels of attainment of MDG goals such as, but not limited to, poverty, basic health, sanitation, nutrition and education.

 

Crime and Violence Maps:

 Maps under this cluster have been produced with crime statistics data provided by the Ministry of National Security and with data from the Victimization Survey commissioned by UNDP as part of the 2012 UNDP Caribbean Human Development Report.