Statistical association between income and social entitlements in Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy established in its multidimensional measure of poverty, that income and gaps in social entitlements represent independent spaces. Nevertheless, such postulation was not submitted to statistical verification, and its basis is rather theoretical. The statistical techniques proposed in this work, given the categorical nature of the variables involved, lead to the existence of association between social entitlements and income. The results obtained also suggest omitting the gap in access to health services. Additionally, interesting relationships are found between the variables in the space of social entitlements, which lead to redundancy among dimensions.