Integration of Indicators for Sustainable Development in Brazilian States: a quantitative analysis

This article seeks to identify and analyze which factors influence the promotion of sustainable development in the Brazilian States, and as specific objectives, to build a sustainable development index for the Brazilian States; to group the States according to the determinant characteristics of sustainability and to evaluate the development indicators by Brazilian States. Regarding the methodology, the research was quantitative and descriptive, using techniques and tools of descriptive statistics, cluster factor analysis and test of means. The result shows that there is a need for further study of more variables that outline conditions for sustainable development by state and that the states of the North and Northeast Regions are more impacted by the absence of sustainability policies. For future studies, it is suggested to evaluate the determinants of sustainable development by means of regression with panel data.