Análise das causas socioeconômicas da pobreza rural no Ceará

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the pover ty in the rural areas of the State of Ceará concerning their socioeconomic causes, such as education, age, color, gender, main activity of occupation, and governmental transfers. Besides this, it aims to analyze the characteristics of rural dwellings related to public goods access. We study the causes of rural pover ty in Ceará in order to check possible changes in the level of pover ty in the period before and after the Real Plan. From the PNAD microdata, obtained from IBGE, the variables that show any association to rural pover ty are determined through Logit regression model, and to analyze the individual determinants, it calculates the marginal contributions. In addition, the descriptive statistics of variables related to pover ty causes and public goods access are calculated. We can conclude that the gender, education, retirement payment, pension, main job activity and government transfers variables have significant relationship upon to regional pover ty, being education and governmental transfers the most important ones. Fur thermore, there is an increase in the public good access which induced better quality of life for the rural population of Ceará.