Construcción de un índice socioeconómico familiar para los estudiantes que presentan la prueba Saber 11
Construction of family socioeconomic index for the students who present the Saber 11 test
Abstract (en)
The aim of this study is to construct an index to measure the socioeconomic status of students who took the standardized tests Saber 11◦ on 2012. In this study, the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education (Icfes) is used corresponding to 424.916 students who participated in the tests and also responded to the sociodemographic questionnaire, consisting of 58 questions seeking some aspects related to their family, social, economic and cultural context. In the first part of the study a review of the literature is made, in order to define the variables and dimensions to be used in the construction of the socioeconomic status, once the possible variables are selected for inclusion in the index, it is passed to the second part in which a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to summarize information as possible into a single component called socioeconomic index, using the methodology made in Flores et al. (2008). Since most categorical variables are plans to use the method of optimal allocation in order to attribute weights to analyze quantitatively those categories (De Leeuw & Mair 2009). Finally an analysis of the academic achievement given the socioeconomic status of students is made, a high correlation between the score and the socioeconomic status was obtained.Abstract (es)
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