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Northern Cape PSDF
Volume 2
D.2.3 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEED
Office of the Premier &
Department of Rural Development & Land Reform
December 2011
This index measures aspects of vulnerability or development need. The proportion black and
coloured population groups (generally considered apartheid victims), children and aged, female
household heads, educationally deprived, lower income groups, the unemployed, unskilled, and
recent in‐migrants are typical indicators. Places with low matriculation pass rates, high
proportions under the mean level of living index, high rates of HIV/AIDS and high percentages
receiving social grants are indications of high need. Other measures relate to housing conditions
and access to domestic services such as water, sanitation and electricity. Figure D.4 illustrates the
process of classifying the municipalities and settlements in terms of their Human Development
Needs. Maps D.10 to D.12 illustrate the status of the municipalities and settlements as it relates to
their Human Development Needs.
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEED OF MUNICIPALITIES
• Human Development Needs Index ‐ Figure D.14
COMPOSITE INDICES
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEED
COMBINED HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEED OF
MUNICIPALITIES AND SETTLEMENTS
• Development Potential Index ‐ Figure D.16
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEED OF SETTLEMENTS
• Human Development Needs Index ‐ Figure D.15
Figure D.4: Determining the human development needs of local municipalities and settlements.
Map D.10: Human development needs index of local municipalities (Van der Merwe & Zietsman,
2011).
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