Survey

in order to know and be able to write and publish articles for the web site.

The purpose of the survey was to know what people knew about poverty and how is it measured. It was anonymous to 18 UDLAP students.

It consisted on 8 questions; some of them yes/no and others open questions to see what people actually knew. we now present the results of the survey.

1. first of all, we wanted to know if people knew what poverty was, and if they did, what is it to them. This is what the survey shows (Figure 1):

2. for the part of «what is it?» we can see how people actually have no real idea of the definition of poverty, being the following the answers:

• not having resources
• not being able to live with a house, food and stuff
• No money
• living in bad conditions
• not having resources
• lack of resources and opportunities
• having less resources than the ones you need
• People without resourceslack of resources
• To do not have material possessions

3. the next question was to know how people think poverty is measured, the answers were (Figure 2):

Figure 4. This shows the most used responses for the third question.

4. the following was to know if people knew what social level means (Figure 5):

5. If their answer was «Yes», we wanted to know how many levels they think exist. most of them say 3; rich, medium, poor (Figure 6):

6. we presented some parameters and asked which they thought were used to measure poverty (Figure 7):

7. then we asked if they thought poverty exists in Mexico (Figure 8):

8. And finally, if education is related to poverty, as we can see, most people say it is related (Figure 8):