Typology and classification of Honduran homes, period 2001-2017

Abstract

In recent decades, Honduran homes have undergone a series of demographic, economic and social transformations that affect the composition and distribution of homes. This article presents the typology of the poverty of the Honduran homes analyzed in two moments of the time year, 2001 and 2017, based on the data of the permanent survey of homes of multiple purposes (EPHPM). For the purposes of this study five types of homes were established, one-person, biparental, single-parent, extensive and compound. The poverty line method (LP) was used for the estimation of poverty. To complete the poverty analysis by the poverty line method and to have synthetic indicators, the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index (FGT) was used, which allows by means of the income to quantify how poor the poor are, in other words It would be the level of income that homes in poverty need to leave the poverty line or zero poverty. Over the course of 16 years, Honduran homes have recorded important changes in the structure and arrangements that are given to the internal ones. The homes that prevail at the national level are: the biparental and the extensive ones, in the period of study one observes a growth of the single-parent households. On the other hand, there are marked differences that occur in the urban area and rural areas, single-parent households are more common in the urban area where the headquarters are mostly women.