Coeficiente alométrico para Censo do Ensino Básico

Abstract

Allometry is a term originating from biology, which aims to study the growth of parts of given body in relation to the rest of the it’s composition. This concept can also be expanded to other areas in order to characterize the behavior of social mechanisms, such as the financial system and population dynamics. In such a way that, when considering large sets of data, it is possible to obtain information about the pattern of behavior and how certain variables are associated with each other. Therefore, using tools linked to data analysis, the present work aims to analyze how the allometric behavior of variables that make up the collection of educational data from the basic education SCHOOL CENSUS occurs. For this, microdata was used relating to the school census available on the Federal Government portal, highlighting that the data used includes educational institutions across the country, so that it is possible to study the behavior of four variables, namely, the number teachers, enrollments, schools and the population of a given city. Therefore, through the results obtained, it can be concluded that the relationship between the indicators is described by a power law with the population size, and depending on the indicator cosidered, it is possible to observe a proportional behavior a proportional behavior (isometric), or alometric superlinear or sublinear.