“…Stage I was characterized by the selection of variables that could be associated with leprosy detection. Based on a broad literature review 9,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] , the following variables were selected: municipal human development index and its dimensions (longevity, education and income), Gini and Theil-L indexes (income inequality), vulnerability index and its dimensions (urban REV BRAS EPIDEMIOL 2020; 23: E200007 infrastructure, human capital and income and work), Firjan municipal development index and its dimensions (education, health and employment and income) and socioeconomic performance index and its dimensions (education, health, economy and finance, demographic density, proportion of urban population, collective household with resident, proportion of individuals aged 60 years old or older in the population, proportion of illiterate individuals aged 15 years old or older, proportion of households with inadequate sanitation, average monthly per capita income, proportion of extremely poor people, number of households with a density greater than three people per bedroom, occupancy of individuals aged 10 years old or older, households without income, family composed of six or more people living in the household, responsible person and spouse without income, proportion of single person households, number of permanent private households connected to the general water supply network, number of permanent private households without restrooms for exclusive use of the household and number of permanent private households with garbage collected).…”