abstract: 'Formal education represents one of the main determining factors in

  poverty reduction. Different authors remark the relationship between

  knowledge, incomes increase, and living standards. It represents a

  crucial factor in an individual socioeconomic situation at present and

  in the future. The main characteristics of development include:

  education, health and economy, which are important factors in the

  achievement of sustainable social development. In this line, the United

  Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG-2000) and the Sustainable

  Development Objectives agenda highlights the need of promoting universal

  education not only as an objective, but also as a means to reduce

  poverty since it is considered as an investment that contributes to the

  economic growth, social development and reduction of inequality. In

  Ecuador, these objectives have been developed under the National Plan

  for Well-being. According to its executors, it has achieved remarkable

  results in the majority of its objectives and goals, including the

  increase of the basic education coverage.

  This descriptive and correlational research is aimed at determining the

  Ecuadorian (5-75 years old) perception of education and poverty.

  Socio-demographic characteristics marked by its condition of being or

  not are analyzed in order to identify the peculiarities and differences

  between these two groups and relate them to the development objectives

  set by the government.

  The Employment, Underemployment, and Unemployment Survey (ENEMDU 2015) -

  INEC has been taken as a reference in the study, and it is important to

  mention that it uses standardized variables of the ILO International

  Labour Organization, thus making the results comparable internationally.

  The analyzed variables are: age, racial group, language, educational

  attainment, attendance, school day, educational establishment, activity

  and inactivity condition, computer and technological Access, natural

  region, state assistance, among others.

  The most important results obtained in the research include the gap

  between the attendance and the achievements according to the educational

  attainment. The poor show a major percentage of attendance and better

  results regarding the culmination of their study period in basic and

  primary school. However, in middle and higher education, this percentage

  is higher among non-poor people. The former situation can be influenced

  by the state assistance and public policies implemented such as the free

  distribution of school uniforms and lunch, as well as other benefits

  given by the public institutions. The second major result is the fact

  that most of these poor people belong to certain ethnic groups such as:

  indigenous, afro-ecuadorian, black, mulatto, and montubio.

  Based on these results, it seems that public policies which focused on

  improving access to education of the poor population show encouraging

  results in basic and primary education. However, they also show the

  existing inequity in higher levels of education between mestizos and

  white and other ethnic minority groups.'
affiliation: 'Ortiz-Santacruz, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Politecn Salesiana,
  Cuenca, Ecuador.

  Ortiz-Santacruz, Saul; Guevara-Segarra, Gabriela, Univ Politecn Salesiana, Cuenca,
  Ecuador.'
author: Ortiz-Santacruz, Saul and Guevara-Segarra, Gabriela
author_list:
- family: Ortiz-Santacruz
  given: Saul
- family: Guevara-Segarra
  given: Gabriela
booktitle: '10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

  (ICERI2017)'
da: '2023-09-28'
editor: Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC
files: []
isbn: 978-84-697-6957-7
issn: 2340-1095
keywords: Education; poverty condition; Ecuador; socio-demographic profile
keywords-plus: REDUCTION
language: English
note: '10th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and

  Innovation (ICERI), Seville, SPAIN, NOV 16-18, 2017'
number-of-cited-references: '17'
pages: 764-770
papis_id: e298e06fd40a2918276a430f5320c580
ref: Ortizsantacruz2017educationpoverty
series: ICERI Proceedings
times-cited: '0'
title: 'EDUCATION AND POVERTY: A SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS ON THE EDUCATION OF THE
  ECUADORIAN POPULATION BETWEEN 5-75 YEARS OLD SEGMENTED BY POVERTY CONDITION'
type: proceedings
unique-id: WOS:000429975300123
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2017'