RENDA, DESIGUALDADE E POBREZA NO ESTADO DO PIAUÍ: ANOS 90

Abstract

This work analyzes the income distribution and poverty in Piauí, It identifies the socialdemographic conditioning and combined factors of this distribution and it verifies the influence of variable situations of urban and rural domicile, education, sex, age, position in occupation, work hours and the activity sector in the distributive profile of income and in poverty among economically active persons. Poverty is focused under the point of view of income insufficiency. The analysis of individual data of the PNAD of 1992, 1993 and 1995 showed that the principal determinants of income of a person economically active in Piauí are age and school level. In the urban domicile, age and school level are emphasized, and in the rural domicile, age, work hours and school level are emphasized. In the agricultural activity, age, position in the occupation and work hours are emphasized. Poverty in the 90’s is still elevated principally when the rural domicile is considered and people are occupied in agriculture. The design of social politics must then pass with priority by the incentive to education and to alternatives of agricultural income.