Methodology to target new care centers for persons with disabilities. An application of Multivariate Analysis

Abstract

The main contribution of this article, based on the thesis written by the Gandy Rene López Fuertes MSc., this methodological proposal aims to focus new centers for the care of people with disabilities, in this sense the grouping of Ecuadorian parishes is carried out in order to generate possible scenarios for the creation of care centers for the people with disabilities that demand priority. The main source for the development of this model was the VII Population Census and VI Housing Census of 2010, from this source some sociodemographic variables were obtained, such as the incidence of people with disabilities, people with disabilities living in poverty due to unmet basic needs, among others. After applying multivariate statistical methods such as Factor Analysis, some variables were simplified, and the first two components were taken, for which it was possible to explain the variance of 88.6 % of the original data. In addition, thanks to the results obtained from the cluster analysis, it was possible to determine the three necessary groups of parishes that showed a certain level of priority. Finally, the group with the highest priority was Stratum 3, which corresponds to 378 (36.9 %) parishes whose conglomerate allowed the most vulnerable parishes in Ecuador to be classified, where the creation of new care centres is needed, with the intention that the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion can assist persons with disabilities.