INFLUÊNCIA DE INDICADORES SOCIOECONÔMICOS NO CONSUMO PER CAPITA DE ÁGUA PARA OS MUNICÍPIOS DO ESTADO DA BAHIA

Socioeconomic factors can influence the quantitative aspects of services that are inherent to basic sanitation components. This study consists of the application of the Pearson correlation between drinking water consumption and socioeconomic parameters in order to measure and classify the influence of the municipal human development index and the per capita gross domestic product on per capita water consumption. Correlations were analyzed using data from 417 municipalities in the state of Bahia, Brazil from 2002 to 2016. The results demonstrate the occurrence of a weakly positive Pearson linear correlation between the human development index and water consumption and a weakly negative correlation between the gross domestic product and the per capita water consumption for most of the analyzed municipalities. The operational characteristics of the tools usedhere proved to be efficient, simple, and important for building studies aimed toward the planning and improvement of water supply systems.