Abstract

MERCADO GARCIA, Alfonso  and  LOPEZ PEREZ, Carlos Roberto. An assessment of the availability and quality of Mexican statistics on environmental pollution. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.3, pp.599-627.  Epub Dec 22, 2020. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v35i3.1888.

Very little is known about the availability of Mexican data on environmental pollution and even less about their quality. The purpose of this document is therefore to take a step towards increasing this knowledge, through the assessment of selected issues, using a Likert scale method. The topics studied are water pollution, air emissions, solid waste and pollution generated by businesses and households. Greater limitations are detected in the availability than the quality of the data studied. This is particularly noticeable in three issues: the relationship between firms, households and solid waste and the environment, although progress has been observed in the first two in the past five years. The biggest challenges of availability and quality focus on solid waste. As for the causes of these problems, there is a lack of good administrative records and a mismatch between the supply of statistical information and demand for the latter in scientific research and decision-making sectors.

Keywords : environmental pollution; environmental statistics; air emissions; business and environment; households and environment; C81; C82; Q56.

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