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Health status 11 % Point change in HIV/AIDS rates (2001-2007)
Migration rates 12 % Point change in in-migrants past 5 years (2001-2007)
Housing 13 % Point change in population living in informal housing units
(2001-2007)
Access to domestic services 14 % Point change in population with electricity in home (2001-
2007)
15 % Point change in population with running water in home (2001-
2007)
16 % Point change in population with toilets in home (2001-2007)
Human Development Index 17 % Change in HDI (2001-2007)
3.5 Composite Indices
For the cross-sectional analyses of towns and municipalities the indices described in the
previous sections were in turn combined to produce the following three composite indices in
accordance with the NSDP stipulations. These composite indices aggregate the major urban
developmental dimensions to enable the higher-level generalization required to classify the
115 towns and 32 municipalities into useful typologies (see Table 3.2):
1. Composite Resource Index: Natural Resources + Human Resources
2. Composite Infrastructure Index: Transportation and Communication + Institutional
Services.
3. Composite Economic Index: Economic Sectors + Commercial services + Market and
Accessibility Potential + Property Market
At an even higher level of aggregation and generalization all the growth indicators were
combined to create a single grand Index of Development Potential: Resource Index +
Infrastructure Index + Economic Index. It was not necessary to further create a compound
index of Human Needs as no sub-themes were distinguished within this dimension (Table
3.2).
By integrating the Development Potential Index with the Human Needs Index, towns and
municipalities were classified into a Typology for Investment to provide a clearer insight into
the development potential and the development needs of the various towns and local
municipalities, as well as the investment policies required to manage urban growth and
development in the province in future. Apart from the town indicators, indices computed for
municipalities (cross-sectional and temporal) are used as contextual information for providing
further investment guidelines to the various spheres of government on the type and locations
for stimulating economic growth and social advancement.
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