CASEN 2024 in 3 spoonfuls: without a fine-grained territorial reading, social policy moves blind
In Chile, La Araucanía records 13.0% extreme poverty; Magallanes, 4.2% . That is 8.8 percentage points of difference — and if a public agency at the central or local level (regional governments / municipalities) designs its intervention using only the national average (6.9%), or disregarding regional differences, it could get the allocation of resources or the distribution of its components…
Chile's La Araucanía region shows an extreme poverty rate of 13.0%, compared to Magallanes at 4.2%. This results in an 8.8 percentage point gap between the two regions. Similarly, FONASA coverage is much higher in La Araucanía at 91.1% compared to Metropolitana at 75.9%, a 15.2 percentage point difference. Additionally, Metropolitana has a significantly higher proportion of people with completed higher education at 34.9% compared to Maule at 20.4%, a 14.5 percentage point gap.
All these regional differences are statistically significant and have been cross-validated against official data from BIDAT.
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