Input data - Wasteaware Cities Benchmark Indicators - WABI 2023 - Global data analytics

This is the input dataset for the research publication "<em>Socio-economic development drives solid waste management performance in cities: A global analysis using machine learning</em>". It features Metadata info used by R codes Full data set for the WABI, used by the R codes Data required for plotting the map in Figure 1 The independent variables data set refers to specific indicators of the WABI methodology (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X14004905) which generates solid waste management and resource recovery profiles for cities. It is applied here for 40 cities around the world. The data set contains also values for a series of explanatory variables, which are measures of the level of socioeconomic development at country level.