Análise da desigualdade socioeconômica no Brasil: as condições de vida da população nas capitais

Abstract

This article studies socioeconomic inequality in Brazilian capitals based on the analysis of the living conditions of their resident populations. Taking as an assumption that this inequality is a reflection of multicausal aspects, a set of variables was selected, from the Demographic Censuses of 2000 and 2010, by PNUD and DATASUS/MS, which could account for the real social and economic conditions and, at the same time, to point out which factors are most evident in the inequality observed among the 27 capitals of Brazil. For this, indices of living conditions were created, focusing on various aspects of the social and economic life of people residing in these locations, which were synthesized and a Global Index of Socioeconomic Inequality (IGDSe) that allowed a comparative analysis of the real social and economic conditions of the population. Brazilian. The results were enough to demonstrate that inequalities are persistent in the country's poorest cities. The capitals of the South Region (Curitiba, Florianopolis and Porto Alegre) and Vitória/ES occupied a prominent place in the ranking of Brazilian socioeconomic inequality, with lower levels of inequality, while in the capitals of the North and Northeast Regions, those cities with higher levels of inequality.