INEQUALITY AND DISABILITY: IN STATISTICAL TERMS, WHAT ELSE DO WE NEED TO KNOW?

Paulo Meira E Silva De Oliveira

doi:10.28951/rbb.v39i3.528

Abstract

Social inequality is the phenomenon that differentiates between people in the context of the same society, placing some individuals in structurally more advantageous conditions than others. It manifests itself in all aspects: political, economic among others. The main causes of inequality are investment lack in social areas, health and education. Among the consequences of inequality, we highlight: increased violence, poverty, delay in economic progress; hunger, destruction and infant mortality; young marginalization people, and finally; rising unemployment. Among the main inequality types, we highlight: people with and without disabilities, regions, races; income and sex. To measure this inequality, we highlight HDI, Theil and MPI. A person with a disability is any person who presents a loss or abnormality that generates an inability to perform one or more activities, and these characteristics hinder their social inclusion, access to the labor market, transportation, education, financing and training; urban and environmental barriers, and finally; ignorance of employers. Situations like these provide disabilities people with lower wages when employed, worse purchasing power, less social participation providing greater exclusion and disadvantaged situations when compared to those without disabilities. For this work we used exploratory analysis techniques considering data sets from the 2010 IBGE Census and UNDP.

Highlights

Social inequality is the economic difference that exists between certain groups of people within the same society
Societies began to realize that, in addition to charity and assistance, such people should be included in programs and public policies that could enhance their productive potential (SILVA, 1986; DOMINGO, 2006; FIGUEIRA, 2008)
For the elaboration of this work we used Data Explory Analysis (DEA) for analysis that we highlight: Step 1: The graph of distribution of the Human Development Index (HDI) was obtained (Figure 7). average monthly income in minimum wage was calculated for disabled people and without disabled people for the variables number of assets (Figure 8), race (Figure 9), expanded education level (Figure 10), main job type (Figure11) and distribution by disability type (Figure 12); descriptive measures for some indexes and proportions by municipality (Table 1), and ; considering people with and without disabilities for distribution by goods number (Table 2), race (Table 3), expanded education level (Table 4), and main job type (Table 5)

Summary

Introduction

Social inequality is the economic difference that exists between certain groups of people within the same society. This inequality tends to affect mainly people with greater vulnerability, as is the case of disabled people, who in most cases are taken to a vulnerability situation. Societies began to realize that, in addition to charity and assistance, such people should be included in programs and public policies that could enhance their productive potential (SILVA, 1986; DOMINGO, 2006; FIGUEIRA, 2008). In reality, disabled people themselves showed that they could and wanted to study, work, have their voices heard and be fully included in society (GARCIA, 2010)

Methods

Results

Conclusion