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Porter, Jeremy. and Purser, Christopher. "26. Human Development: An Application of the United Nation’s Human Development Index at the Sub-National Level" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237725_index.html>

Porter, J. R. and Purser, C. W. , 2008-07-31 "26. Human Development: An Application of the United Nation’s Human Development Index at the Sub-National Level" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237725_index.html

Publication Type: Poster Abstract: Understanding human development at the international, regional, and national level is essential to the understanding of the needs and wants of vast populations around the world. Since the late 1980’s that had been the goal of the United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP). The program has published hundreds of reports at each of the above levels. However, development reports at the national level tend to be reserved for areas of crisis, such as civil war, famine, etc. Because of this and the lack of current literature on the subject little is know about human development in the United States. This project aims to apply the United Nation’s Human Development Index (HDI) to the United States in order to create a sub-national HDI for the measurement of U.S. counties. Due to the inherent spatial methodology in the development of the HDI, this project further introduces the use of geographic information systems tools in hopes of better capturing the results of the development index. The results show a very interesting picture of high regional, state, and county variation in all of the measures and outcomes associated with the implementation of the sub-national HDI.

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