Family income and young people's access to secondary education in Honduras

Abstract

The following document has support empirically about: the influence of the family income in the possibilities of young people to enter the middle education system in Honduras, assuming the following hypothesis: the family income systematically affect the participation of children and youth education. This research uses a probabilistic econometric regression to test the hypothesis, which was validated with statistical criteria of Akaike and Schwarz for nested models, which resulted in a robust model to explain quite acceptable variable.

The data presented are from the Encuesta para el Mejoramiento de la Condiciones de Vida (ENCOVI) applied by Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (INE) in 2004. The most recent data access was not possible and it is likely that some of the issues raised have already been resolved by public programs dedicated to the subject.

This paper shows that family income has a systematic impact on access of young people between 12 and 18 at the middle education system in Honduras, in addition, the geographic area where families living have a crucial influence on such access. Therefore it is necessary to establish public policies aimed at solving these problems.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rct.v0i9.710

Revista Ciencia y Tecnología, No. 9, Diciembre 2011 pp.95-109