Software para generación de cuestionarios

La presentación muestra el sistema informático completo y los procesos utilizados por el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística de Colombia para el relevamiento y procesamiento de datos y para la generación de información. Luego, se describe en detalle y a través de capturas de pantalla las características y funcionalidades del software para la gestión de los datos (GEA) que permite generar cuestionarios automatizados.Estadísticas demográficas y sistemas de información, Transferencia de tecnología, censos, estadística, automatización, software, cuestionarios

The Boom of cohabitation in Colombia and in the Andean Region : social and spatial patterns

In this chapter we use census microdata to document the rise in cohabitation in Colombia and in the Andean countries of Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú and Venezuela over the last four decades. We use multilevel logistic regression models to examine the effect of individual and contextual variables on cohabitation. We show the individual and contextual effects of social stratification, ethnicity and religion on cohabitation. Cohabitation levels follow a negative gradient with education and vary according to ethnic background. The Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian censuses reveal that the two largest ethnic groups (i.e. the Quechua and Aymara) have, controlling for other characteristics, the lowest incidence of cohabitation. By contrast, Afro-American populations show the highest levels of cohabitation. The joint use of individual- and contextual-level explanatory variables is sufficient to account for the majority of Bolivia's internal diversity regarding cohabitation, but not sufficient to account for the internal diversity identified in Colombia, Peru or Ecuador. Even after controls, residence in the Andes mountain areas continues to be a factor associated with lower levels of cohabitation. This invites further investigations on how the institutionalization of marriage occurred in the Andes

Beyond property: Rural politics and land-use change in the Colombian sugarcane landscape

Analysing the sugarcane landscape in the flat valley of the Cauca River (Colombia) reveals that agricultural industrialization in the region required the concentration of land use by regional industrialists and the corresponding exclusion of landowners and poor peasants from territorial decision-making processes. The analytical lens used in this article, based on the use and control over land and land-based natural commons, allows for the characterization of three periods in a non-linear process of articulation and dispute between poor peasant and capitalist agents in the expansion of the sugarcane monoculture during the 20th century. The different constellations of social agents, governmental nexus, and capital enclosures have enacted through mechanisms that, beyond concentrating land property, have managed to deprive rural ethnic communities from their cultural and environmental heritage, traditional economies, and possible futures.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151270/1/joac12332_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151270/2/joac12332.pd

Plan Colombia: illegal drugs, economic development and counterinsurgency - a political economy analysis of Colombia's failed war

This article examines the socioeconomic effects of the illegal drug industry on economic and social development in Colombia. It shows that illegal drugs have fostered violence and have had a negative effect on economic development. This article also shows that the Plan Colombia anti‐drug policy has been an ineffective strategy in terms of decreasing drug production, generating economic development and reducing violence. Since this study includes both a statistical analysis of the effects that violence and illegal drugs have on the economic growth of Colombia, along with an evaluation of the Plan Colombia policy programme, it fills the gap between existing empirical studies of the Colombian illegal drug industry and specific analyses of Plan Colombia

Congenital malaria in Urabá, Colombia

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Congenital malaria has been considered a rare event; however, recent reports have shown frequencies ranging from 3% to 54.2% among newborns of mothers who had suffered malaria during pregnancy. There are only a few references concerning the epidemiological impact of this entity in Latin-America and Colombia.</p> <p>Objective</p> <p>The aim of the study was to measure the prevalence of congenital malaria in an endemic Colombian region and to determine some of its characteristics.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A prospective, descriptive study was carried out in the mothers who suffered malaria during pregnancy and their newborns. Neonates were clinically evaluated at birth and screened for <it>Plasmodium spp</it>. infection by thick smear from the umbilical cord and peripheral blood, and followed-up weekly during the first 21 days of postnatal life through clinical examinations and thick smears.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>116 newborns were included in the study and 80 umbilical cord samples were obtained. Five cases of congenital infection were identified (four caused by <it>P. vivax </it>and one by <it>P. falciparum</it>), two in umbilical cord blood and three in newborn peripheral blood. One case was diagnosed at birth and the others during follow-up. Prevalence of congenital infection was 4.3%. One of the infected newborns was severely ill, while the others were asymptomatic and apparently healthy. The mothers of the newborns with congenital malaria had been diagnosed with malaria in the last trimester of pregnancy or during delivery, and also presented placental infection.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Congenital malaria may be a frequent event in newborns of mothers who have suffered malaria during pregnancy in Colombia. An association was found between congenital malaria and the diagnosis of malaria in the mother during the last trimester of pregnancy or during delivery, and the presence of placental infection.</p

The fatal attraction of civil war economies: foreign direct investment and political violence. A case study of Colombia

Civil war acutely inhibits economic growth, according to a prominent set of civil war literature. However, recent scholarship observes that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), considered a central vehicle of growth, is entering countries with internal armed conflicts unabated. Furthermore, some civil war economies exhibit substantial increases in FDI during conflict. According to this scholarship, FDI enters conflict zones in spite of violence. This article contrastingly adopts a critical framework acknowledging the often violent characteristics of globalised capitalism. By analysing Colombia’s oil industry (the country’s largest sector of FDI), this article suggests that civil war violence can create conditions that facilitate FDI inflows. More specifically, this article posits that violence perpetrated by armed groups sympathetic to the interests of the oil sector – namely, the public armed forces and right-wing paramilitaries – have facilitated FDI in Colombia’s oil sector. In particular, processes of forced displacement and violence against civilian groups have served to protect economically important infrastructure and have acquired land for oil exploration. Moreover, civilian groups deemed inimical to oil interests have been violently targeted. By using disaggregate-level data on the conflict in Arauca, an important oil producing region of Colombia, this case study indicates that intensifying levels of civil war violence in areas of economic interest are followed by increases in oil production, exploration and investment

Evaluación metodológica sobre combinación entre tiempo y costo de levantamiento de PDA

La presentación expone los elementos de análisis para evaluar la relación costo-beneficio del uso de PDAs en censos. El documento revisa la relación costo-beneficio, las ventajas del formulario electrónico y el uso de georreferenciación, los procesos de calidad y los índices con ejemplos de casos. Por último, se plantean una serie de conclusiones y preguntas.Estadísticas demográficas y sistemas de información, Transferencia de tecnología, censos, estadísticas, PDA, georreferenciación, GPS

Resultados de la encuesta Piloto de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en el Sector Servicios en Colombia, 2003-2004

Con el objeto de caracterizar la dinámica tecnológica de las empresas colombianas, de sensibilizar y crear una cultura sobre la importancia de las estadísticas de innovación tecnológica, se realizó en el primer semestre de 2005 la Segunda Encuesta de Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica —EDIT II—. la EDIT II fue efectuada en forma conjunta por el Departamento Nacional de Planeación —DNP—, Colciencias y el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística —DANE—, y es parte de un proyecto conjunto orientado a la investigación de la intensidad y trayectoria de las actividades de innovación y desarrollo tecnológico, de la incidencia de los instrumentos de política pública y de los tipos de perfiles ocupacionales aplicados en las diferentes áreas o departamentos de las empresas.Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación. Colciencia