Análise comparativa do índice de desenvolvimento socioeconômico nos municípios de abrangência da Unipampa

Abstract

It is possible to impact the economic and social development of a region when its population actively participates in the flow between science, technology, and innovation. This impact can be observed indirectly, when it manifests itself in influencing local education, or directly, when it meets the demands of the local job market. To measure this impact, it is possible to use the Socio-Economic Development Index, or IDESE as its known, which informs the socioeconomic situation of territorial units from the attributes of Health, Income, and Education, proposing a scope of the continuous development process. In recognizing the importance of the university in its respective locality, this work intends to present the reality of the host cities where the campuses of Pampa Federal University do are located in two periods, the decade preceding the establishment of the institution and its first decade of operation. Given the decimal measure displayed by the IDESE, it is viable to perform statistical calculations to reveal the central tendency of the values provided between the two decades, thus being able to classify them as to the impact that the university has caused to its host cities. In conclusion, the 10 years prior to the foundation of the university were observed and very low values of development of the IDESE dimensions were found. Observing still the 10 years passed with the presence of the university, and an improvement was found, but only reached the stabilization of the factors. It is expected that in future studies better values of the socioeconomic development indexes will be found.