Abstract

CAMPOS BRICENO, Guiliana Rocío  and  CONDOR ITURRIZAGA, Ronny Martin. Ethnicity in Peru and its multidimensional nature: a proposal for measurement. Desde el Sur [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.1, e0012.  Epub May 26, 2022. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1401-2022-0012.

Ethnicity is a complex concept to define in the social sciences. This complexity is since various authors recognize ethnicity as a set of racial, social, and cultural characteristics shared by a group of people. As a result, the nature of ethnicity is multidimensional. This paper aims to construct an index that measures the multidimensionality of ethnicity using household survey data from Peru in 2007 and 2017. The method used to construct the index is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In addition, a correlational analysis of the proposed index with the incidence of poverty, educational and labor variables is presented. Among the results found, there is a greater ethnic intensity in the population living in poverty, in illiteracy conditions and with lower educational levels, as well as in the selfemployed population.

Keywords : Ethnicity; ethnic groups; multidimensionality; index.

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