| Alimentos y Bebidas |
0,40% |
| Vivienda |
0,45% |
| Muebles, Enseres y Cuidados de la casa |
0,06% |
| Esparcimiento, equipos recreativos y culturales |
0,07% |
| Enseñanza |
0,10% |
International Women's Day
What is the place of women in the Uruguayan economy?
Rates of current activity in women and men are placed at 51 and 72 and occupancy rates at 44 and 66 respectively. In relation to the unemployment rate, there is also significant differences, as women are almost twice as unemployed than men.
Also, studies show that women tend to lose prominence in the labour market, as they are the children, since it notes that young couples without children, 75% of women worked while in the remuneradamente Couples with children up to 12 years of age, this percentage drops to 58%.
Of the Uruguayan who are employed, 59% are gainfully employed in the private sphere, but because employers contained only 2.6%, which is less than half that in the case of males As expected the reverse trend is observed in the category household member unpaid, where 35% are women compared to only 1% of men.
Income female
The 61% of households Uruguayan has as main contributor to a man, while the remaining 39% is a woman. Practically, 4 out of every 10 households Uruguayans are sustained by a woman.
Looking at the percentage of income that women bring, we find that in 24% of households, women do not provide income but at the other extreme, 23% of households are maintained exclusively by women. In turn, we found that 15% of households are in a situation of economic coprovisión, that is where women contribute between 40 and 60% of total revenues.
In 2006, the average earnings of women per hour of work, his main occupation, representing 88% of the average earnings of men. The average income per hour of work for women is 53 pesos while the men amounts to 60 pesos.
Another interesting element to analyze, related to income, relates to people with no income and own, this is one of the indicators that account of the processes of poverty that differentially affect men and women in our country and 29% of women and 16% of men do not have income of their own, which shows the economic dependence to twice as many women as men This is directly related to poverty situations, as the 42.7% of women who live in poor households not has own income, while in non-poor households, this percentage is 27.9. Of the women who have no income of their own, live in poor households 3 and 1 in non-poor households.
Insecurity in the female work
Another important indicator to reflect the conditions of precariousness female labour is that the 14% who are busy working in domestic service, where it is estimated that nearly 30% are underemployed, and that 58.4% does not make contributions to the Pensions Fund
Average income of Uruguayans
The National Statistics Institute published the results of the Continuing Survey of Households, revealing indicators of the average income of Uruguayans. According to the survey, the purchasing power grew by 2.4% in the last quarter of the year, compared with the previous quarter.
The average income of households in the country's total stood at current rates in October December 2007 at $ 20,331 (without income and without bonuses rental value). Montevideo continues to be the geographic area of the country with higher levels of income, reaching $ 24,787. Meanwhile, the income of the interior of the country, was estimated at $ 16,970.
Purchasing power
The purchasing power of households in the country's total increased, between 3rd. And the 4th. Quarter of 2007, 3.3 per cent (excluding bonuses and no rental value priced January 2005).
In Montevideo, income for the period October to December 2007, no bonuses and no rental value prices for January 2005 has been estimated at $ 20,511, which means an increase of 2.6 per cent over the September quarter July.
The real income without the rental value and without bonuses of households in the whole country rose in the last quarter of 2007, by 5.9 percent over the same quarter of 2006. Improving the income is a situation which occurs both in Montevideo and in the country's interior, with increases of 4.0 and 7.6 percent respectively. In the same vein evolved per capita income with a real growth estimated at 7.0 percent for the whole country.
In perspective
The medium-term analysis that emerges from comparing the last quarter of 2007 with the same period in 2006, exhibiting an improvement of the median income of households of 5.9 percent in real terms for the whole country. While this increase is observed both in the capital and elsewhere in the country, is significantly higher in the countryside. For the whole country, between the two last quarter of 2007, there has been real growth in the income of wage earners and liabilities, while the real incomes of workers not dependent variations negative.
