This Thursday, April 24, the results of the Quality of Life Survey, a key tool to know the social conditions of households in Colombia, were published through the review of five major axes, such as the composition of the home, housing and environment, quality of individual life, perceptions of poverty and security, as well as the possession of goods and services.
According to the data presented by the DANE, although the number of homes continues to increase, these are getting smaller and the female leadership is maintained as a constant. Likewise, four out of 10 live in lease and 26.8% have housing deficit.
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Specifically, last year the estimated population reached 52.8 millionfact that marks remarkable growth with respect to the 52.3 million that were observed in 2023. Of these, 40.4 million live in headwaters or main cities and 12.3 million in populated and rural centers dispersed.
As regards the Household Registry, the DANE said there are 18.4 million; of which 14.26 million are in cities and 4.13 million in rural areas. Thus, the average size of households was 2.86 people, maintaining the reduction trend observed in previous years (2.9 in 2023 and 2.95 in 2022).
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Live in rent
According to the 2024 quality survey, 39.6%of Colombian households live in their own home, either completely paid (36%) or in payment process (3.5%). However, most reside in lease or uploading (40.4%). It is followed by those who occupy homes without paying with permission (14%), the de facto occupants (3.8%) and Those who live in collective property (2.3%), evidencing great diversity in the forms of possession.
Compared to 2023, the main change was the slight reduction (0.6 percentage points) in homes that still pay their home. The analysis according to the sex of the head of the household shows a growing gap: the proportion of owners between men and tenants between women increased. This trend reflects greater vulnerability of households led by women in terms of access and safety in housing possession.
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“The results show that the percentage of households that lived in housingS with housing deficit was 26.8%, which is mainly explained by the qualitative component (comprising non -structural deficiencies that can be improved), with a 20.0%level, while the quantitative (which measures structural or space deprivations) reached 6.8%, ”they added.
At the regional level, Chocó leaded with the highest percentage of households in own housing (64.7%), followed by Boyacá and Atlántico. In contrast, Guainía, Vichada and Vaupés present the lowest levels of individual property. In Guainía and Vaupés collective property predominates, while in Vichada the occupation of fact is more common, which suggests important territorial inequalities in access to formal home.
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Female Headquarters
The quality of life survey also revealed that by 2024, the majority female headquarters remained as a constant, since 46.5% of households are led by a woman and in the case of the main cities this indicator was 49%. If you take into account that five years ago the Headquarters female was 41.6%; It is clear that this trend has grown remarkably in the country.
When reviewing the household composition, the DANE reported that 51.6% is biparental, that is, it is made up of mother, father and children; Data that marks a setback compared to 52.4% of 2023 and 56.7% observed in 2019. Similarly, 24.3% is monoparental, 19.8% are unipersonal and 4.3% is not related to a family nucleus.
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“The comparison of the proportion of the highest weight in the total (Biparental) by departments shows that Vaupés has the highest indicator (with 67.5%), followed by 3 departments of the Caribbean (Magdalena, Bolívar and Atlántico). For its part, Putumayo presents the lowest percentage of biparental homes (40.7%) and follows Arauca and Cauca, ”they added.
Regarding households with female headquarters, it is striking that in most household heads do not have a partner or spouse (68.8%), which contrasts with homes with male leadership, where less than a third of the bosses (31.4%) do not live as a couple. The same situation occurs in the headwaters and rural sector, although the DANE realizes that in the latter the percentage of households in the head of women without spouse is smaller.
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Health care
In this survey it was also known that for last year, 96.5% of the population in Colombia was affiliated with the General Social Security System (SGSS), exceeding 0.6 percentage points the level of 2023, although unlike From previous years, this increase is due to growth in the contributory regime.
While coverage exceeds 90% in all departments, there are contrasts by type of regime. In Bogotá, 74.6% are in the contributory, while in Vichada, Chocó and Guainía, more than 90% access the system through the subsidized regime. Regarding the perception of the health service, 84.8% of the affiliates described it between “good” and “very good”, showing a slight improvement against previous years.
Although the perception is mostly positive, the percentage of Colombians who said that it is receiving treatment for chronic disease detected in the last year fell from 89.4% to 88.6% and when consulted by the delivery of medications that were formulated in the EPS, the category “All” It fell from 68% to 65%, that of “some” went from 15.5% to 15.3% and “none” rose from 16.5% to 19.7%.
