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24/04/2013
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Increased schooling seems to be the main change between the younger members of the families of the new middle class
Search traced profile of about 23 million youths aged 18 to 30 years with a monthly income between R$ 219 and R$ 1,019. They are 55% of Brazilians in this age group
Allan Lopes da Silva's intercom, but paid particular cursinho daughter Samara. She managed to pass the entrance exam and is attending college at PUC. Already the youngest daughter, Amanda Moreth da Silva will make the pre-vestibular Carlos Ivan / O Globo
RIO - If the expansion of income and power consumption marked the rise of almost 40 million Brazilians to class C in the last decade, the increase in education seems to be the main change among the younger members of these families. But not the only one.
The children of the new middle class are more informed, connected to the internet and have less conservative views on women and homosexuality than their parents, the study "Generation C", which has just been completed by the Data Popular Institute. This is a profile of about 23 million youths aged 18 to 30 years with a monthly income between R $ 219 and R $ 1,019 and represent 55% of Brazilians in this age group.
- This young man is going to be very different from an adult parent. Education is the big difference, obviously. But they have studied more than parents and that brings a number of developments, such as increased family income, better jobs, more information. The first-generation college family is less conservative, no longer sees the woman as homemaker, will not want the government family allowance, but tax exemption for computers. They will change the face of Brazil - Renato Meirelles says, managing partner of Data Popular. According to him, the change will be the pinnacle in 2022, when this generation is at the peak of their productive activity.
Based on data from the National Household Sample (PNAD) of IBGE and interviews with more than two thousand families, the study concludes that the C-class children spend almost 50% more time in school than their parents, while in class A, the increase is 20%. And for every R$ 100 which receive R$ 70 is intended for family expenses. In the higher classes, the contribution is 20%.
- It helps more because of the need of the family. But what really draws attention in this research is to see that young people are the new trendsetters. It is to him that the father asks about what will be purchased, where the family will travel. And they have a very large electoral force - said Meirelles.
Increase access to university
A doctoral thesis defended at UFMG last month reveals that, in the past decade, increased access of children of illiterate parents with little education or higher education. Crossing numbers of PNAD 2009 and 2010 Census, sociologist Arnaldo Mont'Alvão, author of the research shows that children of parents with complete primary education are twice as likely to get to college than those with illiterate parents. If parents have high school, the chance increases to four times, and students whose parents are college graduates are 16 times more likely to get to college than children of people without any formal education.
Has been worse. In the last decade, the advantage of the children of parents with school fell 3%, with high school shrank 6%, and higher education, 12%.
- The decline in the influence of parental education on children's progression to higher education means that a higher proportion of students whose parents did not have many educational opportunities has achieved this level of education in recent years - says Mont'Alvão.
The factors that help young people of the lower classes to achieve higher levels of education are subjects of another study, which is still being held by Manoel de Almeida Neto, a professor at PUC-MG.
- The economic security provided by the increase in household income improves the likelihood that students get to college. He stops working to invest in education, which requires a lot of family sacrifices. But with a proper income, it is seen as a real possibility and not something more 'is not for you' - explains Neto.
What say Samara Silva, 20, student of Social Communication at PUC-RJ. Daughter of the caretaker Alan Lopes da Silva, 49, and diarist Georgina Moreth da Silva, 51, she has studied in a public school, but parents paid a pre-university, who helped her get into college, where he later got a full scholarship .
- Never pictured myself living that dream. I acknowledge the efforts of my parents. What am having, they could not have - says Samara.
In the year that made young prep school, family expenses have been reduced to the extreme.
- We leave to visit relatives, buy clothes and stuff home. And today still spend a lot of money on transportation and food it - says Alan, now ready to repeat all over again with his youngest daughter, Amanda, 18.
According to Manoel Neto, besides income there are other factors that help poor students achieve higher levels of education. For him, the Pro-Uni, the federal program that provides grants of 50% to 100% for undergraduates with household income per capita of 1.5 to three minimum wages, was also critical:
- The rate exemption entrance seems little, but it will be important because it will cause it to at least try. Reducing the number of children in families also helps because it allows them to invest more in them.
This is what happens in the family home Almeida in Caxias in the Baixada Fluminense. The monthly income of R$ 2,500 to the father, André de Almeida Castro, 38, as a truck driver receives is divided between the household expenses, the faculty wife Tatiana Santos Almeida, 32, which costs R$ 673, and school daughter Giovanna, 3 years, which leads others R$ 320.
- I have worked in public schools and they do not give a good foundation for children. To ensure a good education for my daughter, we need to make many sacrifices: cut phone and internet, live away from family, we can not buy better appliances or a sofa - says Tatiana.
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