Análisis de la pobreza multidimensional de la parroquia San Vicente, cantón El Pan, provincia del Azuay en el año 2017

Abstract

Multidimensional poverty has been positioned as the measure to assess the deprivations that a society has. Therefore, the objective of the research is to build the multidimensional poverty index in the rural parish of San Vicente of district El Pan in 2017. To do this. An information survey is made to the homes of the San Vicente parish. To generate the measurement of multidimensional poverty, the Alkire Foster methodology is used, which is composed of four dimensions that measure education, deprivation, job, health, and housing. Additional dimensions called partner connectivity, participation agency are included, affective states, and subjective well-being, in a way that allows to measure poverty in an integral way. Based on the construction of the index, the multidimensional poverty rate is determined, the extreme poverty rate, the indicators that contribute the most to multidimensional poverty in the analyzed territory and the intensity of poverty is analyzed. The main findings indicate that in the rural parish of San Vicente of district El Pan reach a multidimensional poverty of 67.02%, the extreme poverty rate 25.53% and the intensity poverty of 45.92%.The dimensions that contribute the most that IPM are: subjective well-being (25.92%); partner connectivity, participation and agency (23.68%); and affective states (19.62%).