Percepción de seguridad por condición socioeconómica de los hogares en Colombia: análisis en 28 Ciudades 2014

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of dependence between the perception in security and coexistence and the factors socio-economic households in 28 major cities in Colombia, based on the survey of coexistence and citizen security made by the DANE in the year 2015; the base problem is insecurity results from the sum of criminal acts such as theft, extortion, sexual assault, violence, micro, etc. The study is descriptive emphatically correlational, resorting to an inductive method and quantitative approach applied to a population of 232.665 common 67.988 household residents; Thus, the survey data were subjected to statistical analysis using test ji or Chi-square (χ 2) individually and developed an econometric model, probit, seeking to establish the dependence between the perception of insecurity with the gender, age , educational level, occupation, Stratus and city.

The results showed that from a subjective approach the perception of insecurity is dependent significantly the range of age, the gender, occupation, educational level, stratum and the city of residence; While there are a total independence with time living in a particular city, with marital status, and the type of housing. These findings are consistent with the perception of mosque and Carrion (2008) who established that "the experiences of victimization and perceptions of insecurity of persons are not always correlated".