Assessing Colombia's policy of socio-economic stratification: An intra-city study of self-reported quality of life
Identificadores
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90267Metadatos
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Elsevier
Materia
public policies self-reported quality of life economic resources social resources multilevel models Medellin
Date
2020Referencia bibliográfica
Chica-Olmo, J., Sánchez, A., & Sepúlveda-Murillo, F.H. (2020). Assessing Colombia's policy of socio-economic stratification: An intra-city study of self-reported quality of life. Cities, 97, 102560.
Patrocinador
University of Medellin (Colombia), Project "Modelización Espacial de los Determinantes de la Calidad de Vida en los Hogares de Medellín", under the Grant code 881/2017.Résumé
This paper aims to analyse whether the Colombian government's classification of households into socio-economic strata accurately reflects the level of quality of life of households in Medellin. To this end, logit multilevel models and a novel graphic analysis were used. Our findings suggest that the stratification criteria currently used in Medellin should be revised. The socio-economic strata, which only consider the characteristics of the dwellings, streets and surrounding areas, explain approximately one-tenth of the variability in self-reported quality of life. When other economic and non-economic factors are considered, a different strata ranking for guiding public policies than that used in Medellin was estimated. Neighbourhood safety and personal safety are key drivers of quality of life, whereas higher consumption expenditure is most effective in the most disadvantaged strata.