Open AccessAfro-descendants and social stratification in Mexico. New evidence from the 2015 Intercensal Survey
Author(s) -
Eduardo Torre Cantalapiedra,
Gabriela Sánchez-Soto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papeles de población/papeles de población
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2448-7147
pISSN - 1405-7425
DOI - 10.22185/24487147.2019.100.20
Subject(s) - descendant , socioeconomic status , disadvantaged , logistic regression , demography , population , ordered logit , geography , african descent , social class , sociology , political science , ethnology , statistics , mathematics , physics , astronomy , law
The 2015 Intercensal Survey marks the first time African descent self-identification was included on a nationally representative survey in Mexico. Before that, there were no nation-wide official counts of the Afro-Mexican population. In this paper we use ordinal logistic regression models to examine the effect of being Afro-descendant on the educational and occupational status of Mexi-cans. Contrary to expectations, our results show that, at the national level, there is no evidence that the self-identified Afro-Mexican population has a lower socioeconomic status than other Mexicans. This contradictory result may be attributed to a higher likelihood of Afro-descendant self-identification among more educated people, and lower among the most disadvantaged, par-ticularly in areas where Afro-Mexicans are less represented.