Análisis socioeconómico de los jefes de hogar en el mercado informal de Machala en el año 2023.

Abstract

Informality is one of the most discussed economic issues in Ecuador due to the large percentage of people working in this sector and the excessive number of individuals who are integrated over the years. The purpose of this document is to analyze the socioeconomic level of the heads of household in the informal market in the city of Machala, through the investigation of primary data, in order to identify the effects they produce to the economy of the province and the country. Descriptive research was used and a survey was applied with questions focused on the collection of quantitative data that were tabulated in the econometric program SPSS to indicate that the influential factors in informality are mainly focused on education, family burdens, gender, income level, reasons that drove them to work in the informal sector, etc. Therefore, variables that should be worked on in order to decrease the progress of informality in the locality were identified.