Regionalization and socioeconomic inequalities in the basin of River Mololoa, Nayarit, Mexico

Abstract

In order to regionalize and identify the variables that determine socioeconomic inequality, spatial quantitative and correlation analysis methods were applied to 19 socioeconomic variables obtained for each of the 35 localities settled in the basin, which resulted in a geographic model of socioeconomic regions in function to the correlation amongst variables. Concluding that variables of indigenous population, population from 18 to 24 years old with access to education and economically active population are the ones that determine socioeconomic variables between the eight regions of the basin of River Mololoa.