Abstract

SANCHEZ-PENA, Landy L.. Scopes and limits of the analysis methods for the study of urban poverty. Pap. poblac [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.72, pp.147-180. ISSN 2448-7147.

Mexican population studies paid limited attention to the spatial dimension of social phenomena. even if questions regarding behaviors' diffusion or differences across space have been at the core of their research agenda. This paper has a methodological aim. It reviews three methods to account for spatial dependency and heterogeneity: exploratory spatial data analysis, autoregressive regression models, and geographically weighted regression. The paper exemplifies their questions and applications by examining urban poverty in Guadalajara, at the geostatistical basic area level. It suggests that spatial methods offer a useful way to understand issues such as poverty geographical concentration, contagion o diffusion effects, and variations on poverty explanatory factors across the city.

Keywords : spatial analysis; spatial dependency and heterogeneity; poverty geography.