Determinantes del acceso a la educación básica y media en el Ecuador en el año 2014.

Abstract

This study analyzes the incidence of the social, demographic and economic characteristics of the households of children and adolescents, on the probability of school enrollment at the levels of basic and secondary education in Ecuador. For this, a sample of 26,968 individuals is taken from the Living Conditions Survey (ECV), corresponding to the survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) for the period 2013-2014, and with the help of multivariate statistical techniques As is the case of multiple correspondence analysis and logistic regression, the relationships of the categories of social, demographic and economic variables are analyzed with respect to the probability of enrollment in the educational system. The results of the multiple correspondence analysis show that the variables: geographic area and ethnicity are important to define a first dimension, while in the case of dimension 2, the variables: region and ethnicity and type of educational establishment are the ones that contribute. On the other hand, the results of the logistic regression show that the variables: age, type of educational establishment, ethnicity, number of minors present in the home, age of the student, urban area, household receiving the BDH, age of the mother and per capita income positively influence the probability of enrolling in the basic and middle educational levels in Ecuador.