Análisis espacial a nivel cantonal de la violencia contra las mujeres en el ecuador para el periodo 2019.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the sociodemographic factors that affect gender violence from a cantonal dimension in Ecuador. In view of that, models were used for cross-sectional data with and without spatial effects using information from different government sources for the year 2019. The applied methodology is a spatial error regression model. Through the data and tools described above, it is possible to verify that in the Ecuadorian case, violence against women at the cantonal level has a spillover effect, which generates the creation of clusters of violence mainly in the central-southern highlands region of the country. It is confirmed that sociodemographic variables such as the illiteracy rate, employment by sector, age, age at the beginning of sexual life in women turn out to be relevant in the spatial analysis of violence against women. Finally, the study suggests the implementation of a set of public policies that address the problem from its origins, that allow increasing the schooling rate for girls, promote the labor inclusion of women in the formal sector of the economy, the promulgation of incentives to the creation of companies and new jobs, that is, to implement measures that seek to achieve gender equality and increase the social well-being.