Northern region of the country concentrates difficulties in social mobility

The Northern Region of Brazil proportionately concentrates the highest percentage of people whose parents' low level of schooling has limited their children's ability to generate income. Half of the inhabitants whose parents managed to study only until completing Elementary and Junior High School live with a per capita household income of up to one minimum wage (50.75%) per month. This is one of the many data on the situation of social mobility in the North of the country, made available by the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS).

The North is also the region where the low level of schooling of parents makes it more difficult for their children to live in households with adequate basic sanitation. A little more than one in ten children of parents without formal education (12.46%) manage, in their adult life, to meet conditions that include simultaneously being supplied by a general water distribution network, direct or indirect garbage collection, and a sanitary sewage network. In other words, 87.54% do not attain such housing conditions. To give you an idea of ​​what this represents, the Brazilian average of children of unschooled parents who are in the same situation is 50.7%.

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