Access to basic facilities such as electricity, running water or sewerage
is not homogeneous among households in the provincial capitals of Northwestern
Argentina. Th rough the use of the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods
and by calculating a Housing Suffi ciency Index, we carried out a gradation
in the levels of access to these basic facilities by households residing in these
popular neighborhoods, identifying in which agglomeration the situation is
more positive and in which the opposite situation is recorded. At the same time,
using statistics from the Permanent Household Survey, we carried out the same
procedure, but applied to the total number of households in each agglomeration.
Th e comparison of both gradations shows signifi cant diff erences in some of the
capital cities, which refl ects the existing urban fragmentation.
