Marginalization in Western Mexico, 2000

Abstract

The objective of this work is to be able to discriminate between the different states and evaluate the social impact of the shortages suffered by the population as a result of the lack of access to a minimum of public services that are guarantors of their well-being, in such a way that this allows a comparative evaluation of the situation prevailing in the western part of the country with respect to the national situation, and thus link it to the components of population mobility between regions, and even internationally.

This study allows us to understand the current inequality existing both between states and between regions of the country, and thus relate it to the geographic zones of population expulsion and attraction, especially those in the western part of the country.
The marginalization indexes used here are not our own elaborations but are taken from studies on this topic by the National Population Council (Conapo, 2001), based on information from INEGI and the CNA. These indexes were calculated according to the degree of access that a population has to primary education, residence in inadequate housing, the perception of low monetary income, residence in small, isolated and dispersed localities, insufficient health services, inadequate or insufficient infrastructure equipment, which are minimum necessary elements to consider for the development of the potential of human talent or human capital, and with it the opportunity to access economic opportunity within the local industry.
The parameters for estimating marginalization in Mexico were established by Conapo, and it is not the purpose of this study to review their calculation methodology; it is advisable to go to the primary source.