Capital social e agricultura familiar: uma aplicação da técnica de análise multivariada

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the level of capital of Pentecost county agriculture (EC). The theoretical studies point to the great development of territorial development policies and the importance of social capital for the development of these policies, institutions and organizations for the development of family farming especially in semi-arid regions, as well as community relations. To obtain the data questionnaires were applied for the agricultural year 2014 with questions about the proposed topic in 42 rural communities in the municipality corresponding to 163 families. The analytical data processing consisted in the application of multivariate analysis technique known as factor analysis and from the application of this technique is built the Social Capital Index for rural communities in the municipality and, in addition, the identification and classification of communities in clusters , according to the measurement of social capital in these communities through cluster analysis or cluster. Thus, it was initially done the analysis of the content that is believed to be able to give an idea about the level of capital according to the categories: groups and networks, trust and solidarity, collective action and cooperation, cohesion and social inclusion policies public and technical assistance. Then applied to cluster analysis to group or cluster that index in low-order categories, medium and high. The proposed ICS showed an average level of social capital and a deficiency in the variables studied, which could be explained by the database through frequency analysis of the responses obtained in the field research.