Propuesta metodológica para la elaboración del índice de vulnerabilidad económica y demográfica: Estudio del caso colombiano 2005-2010

Abstract

Como aporte a los resultados que han tenido los estudios en Colombia al respecto, el análisis permite demostrar que la violencia intrafamiliar tiene un efecto significativo en el grado de vulnerabilidad de los hogares, así como el desplazamiento y el acceso a los métodos de planificación familiar. Aunque las familias donde la madre es jefe de hogar, en promedio, tienen menores indicadores de vulnerabilidad que el resto. Así mismo el presente trabajo permite identificar algunas regiones en Colombia donde se presenta el mayor riesgo de deterioro en la calidad de vida de las familias; tales como el Litoral Pacífico, Costa Atlántica, Cauca, Nariño y Valle.

Abstract. In this paper the author proposes explaining the vulnerability understood as the probability of living lower well-being levels in the future and the susceptibility to events that would decrease the purchasing power of the colombian families, based in variables like housing, ownership of durable goods, health, family planning, education, domestic violence and economic situation. The economic and demographic vulnerability index is made with the data from the Demography and Health National Survey 2005-2010. As an approach to the related studies in Colombia, the analysis demonstrates the domestic violences has a significant impact in the vulnerability level of the households, as well as the forced displacement and the access to the contraceptive methods. Although the families where the mother is the household head, in averagem have lower vulnerability indicators than the others. Likewise, this paper identifies some regions in Colombia where there is a higher risk of deterioration in the life conditions of these families; like the Pacific coast, Atlantic coast, Cauca, Nari˜no and Valle.