Socioeconomic level of the construction workers in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

Socioeconomic status refers to the relative position of an individual, family or group in society in terms of economic and social factors, which allows people to be classified into categories or extracts based on their income, education, occupation, and other socioeconomic indicators. Therefore, it is a multidimensional problem that severely affects human beings within society, generating significant inequality gaps. Therefore, the study’s objective was to analyze the socioeconomic level of construction workers in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador, within the methodology the quantitative method was applied with a descriptive scope as a survey technique was used. The results indicate that they have a good family relationship, they own their own home, a tenement house, an apartment, and an apartment, in terms of educational level they indicate having completed primary school; in the labor field most workers are unskilled, they have health services and sanitary service which contributed to conclude that the population belongs to quintile two (lower middle class).