Mapeamento de indicadores socioeconômicos do município de Parnamirim (RN) utilizando técnicas de geoprocessamento

Abstract

Parnamirim is a municipal district in the Rio Grande do Norte State, located about 25Km from Natal, capital of the state. This city is presenting an accelerated demographic growth in the last years, causing a larger search for urban services and infrastructure. The objective of this article is to analyze, through a group of indicators, aspects related to the demography, education, rent and quality of life of the Parnamirim’s population, allowing showing a general vision of their socioeconomic conditions. So a Geographic Information System (GIS) was built, generating a digital inventory that it possesses the capacity to visualize a database focused on the socioeconomic aspects of Parnamirim, allowing the accomplishment of consultations and presentation of the data under several forms and aspects, trying like this to generate a tool to aid in the correct socket of decision. The information presented in this research, we hope to have contributed with the municipal public administration in the sense of supplying subsidies to guide the implementation of public politics to the development of the municipal district in the areas of planning urban, social and economical propitiating like this improvement in the quality of life of the local population.