Spatial analysis of the poverty rate and rural population in the southern region of the country

Abstract

Http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8085.2015v18n2p16

The objective of this study was to verify the spatial existence between the poverty rate and the percentage of the rural population in the municipalities of the southern region of Brazil. Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (AEDE) was used to identify the bivariate I coefficients of Moran, the dispersion charts, the significance maps and the clusters maps of the municipalities variables. Data were collected from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) through the censuses of 2000 and 2010. It can be verified that between the period, there was a little expressive increase of the positive autocorrelation between the percentage of the rural population and the poverty rate for the Municipalities, but considering the percentage of municipalities that were statistically significant, there was an increase in the percentage of municipalities of the Baixo-Baixo regime and a decrease in the percentage of municipalities in the Alto-Alto (AA) regime.