Los censos comunitarios y las opciones tecnológicas : el uso de los dispositivos mòviles de captura = The communitarian censuses and technological cjoice : the use of personal digital assistants
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2009
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Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, vol. 6, no. 2, art. 6, enero - junio
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En este artículo se presenta la experiencia de los censos comunitarios contextualizada con la Ley de los Consejos Comunales de 2006, como una respuesta a la ausencia de información sociodemográfica sobre los barrios populares en Venezuela. Censos que intentan responder a la necesaria pregunta de cuántas personas habitan en el asentamiento, cómo se distribuyen por edades y por sexo, en cuántas viviendas, información que resulta fundamental, tanto para las instituciones como para las organizaciones de base, a la hora de asignar recursos. Pero, sobre esta información recolectada entre la comunidad y – en este caso – con el apoyo de la Escuela de Sociología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, se presenta la interrogante sobre la calidad, la confiabilidad y la oportunidad de los datos recabados, y de la información generada. Este artículo recorre los pasos metodológicos seguidos en el Barrio Nuevo Horizonte del Distrito Capital, para la realización de veinte censos, desde la recabación de los datos hasta su procesamiento y difusión. Se exponen los procedimientos seguidos para la revisión, imputación y corrección de los datos. Finalmente, se reflexiona a manera de hipótesis acerca de las posibilidades de aplicación de los Dispositivos Móviles de Captura (DMC) o Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), con miras a lograr la optimización de la producción de datos sociodemográficos.
This article presents the experience of applying communitarian censuses, contextualized within the Law of the Communal Councils of 2006, as an answer to the absence of sociodemographic information on popular urban settlements in Venezuela. These are censuses aiming to respond necessary questions such as how many people live there, how they are distributed by ages and by sex, in how many houses, and also, considering that the information collected is fundamental, as much for the institutions as for community-based organizations, at the time of assigning financial resources. But, regarding this information collected among the community and - in this case - with the support of the School of Sociology of the Central University of Venezuela, the question appears on the quality, the trustworthiness and the opportunity of the collected data, and the information generated from that data. This article goes through the methodological steps followed in Nuevo Horizonte, a small urban settlement in the Capital District, for the accomplishment of twenty censuses, from the collection of the data to its processing and diffusion. The procedures followed for the revision, imputation and correction of the data are exposed. Finally, it is reflected, in a hypothetical way, the possibilities of applying Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), with a view to obtaining the optimization of the production of sociodemographic data.
This article presents the experience of applying communitarian censuses, contextualized within the Law of the Communal Councils of 2006, as an answer to the absence of sociodemographic information on popular urban settlements in Venezuela. These are censuses aiming to respond necessary questions such as how many people live there, how they are distributed by ages and by sex, in how many houses, and also, considering that the information collected is fundamental, as much for the institutions as for community-based organizations, at the time of assigning financial resources. But, regarding this information collected among the community and - in this case - with the support of the School of Sociology of the Central University of Venezuela, the question appears on the quality, the trustworthiness and the opportunity of the collected data, and the information generated from that data. This article goes through the methodological steps followed in Nuevo Horizonte, a small urban settlement in the Capital District, for the accomplishment of twenty censuses, from the collection of the data to its processing and diffusion. The procedures followed for the revision, imputation and correction of the data are exposed. Finally, it is reflected, in a hypothetical way, the possibilities of applying Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), with a view to obtaining the optimization of the production of sociodemographic data.
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ASENTAMIENTOS PRECARIOS, DATOS, CENSOS, DISPOSITIVOS MOVILES DE CAPTURA