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Spent on public transportation rises more than 30% poor and 15% falls for rich

19/06/2013

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Recent research by IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research) helps to understand why the protesters who joined the rallies in recent days does not matter that the public transport remains the center point of protests.

The study shows that spending on public transportation have risen over 30% over six years from families with per capita income of up to half the minimum wage. Among families with incomes greater than eight times the minimum wage, a drop of over 15%.

When it comes to cost of private transport, the situation is opposite: the spending of the richest in this item rose more than 20%, while the poorest 20% fell, as the graph below shows, played the IPEA study.

Change in real household spending in urban transport by income ranges measured in number of minimum wages per capita

Although the study is September 2012, data refer to the period from 2003 to 2009 (the last year the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics conducted the Survey of Family Budgets).

It must be made clear that the research refers to the variation in spending, not price. A person can increase or reduce the cost of a good or service unless it has been more expensive or cheaper.

In the case of the poorest income rose more than the ticket price (the minimum wage advanced 132.5% in the period, and bus fare, 63.2%, the average of nine metropolitan areas analyzed by IPEA). Consequently, this population are locomovia bit because he had no money even to the bus, went to make more trips and also to spend more.

Another detail: the numbers correspond to per capita income, not family. A family of four with total income of two minimum wages (currently £ 1,356) has a per capita income of half the minimum wage, so enters the lower segment in crop research.

Individual output

The data show that, for the wealthy, it may seem there is no sense in fighting for a service they use fewer.

For the middle class, too. Even families with per capita income of only two minimum wages increased more expenses than private transport with the public in the period, as indicated by the chart above.

"There's been a shift in spending of public transport to private in all income groups except the poorest (income per capita of up to half the minimum wage)," says Carlos Henrique de Carvalho, one of the study's authors.

Still, among the people who use buses and subways, income rose more than the ticket price.

Put another way, a movement to reduce or end tariffs only keep fans in the medium term if those who now spend more on private transport noticing that they themselves will benefit by a public service better.

For now, the individual output generated a collective problem, which are congestion, as pointed out another study, also IPEA.
In São Paulo, where there are 38 cars for every 100 people, the average offset between home and work is 43 minutes.



Source: Website UOL

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