Qualidade de vida no contexto da ocupação de Rondônia: o caso do Projeto Integrado de Colonização Ouro Preto

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the levei of the quality of life of the rural producers localized in the PIC Ouro Preto benefitted by the PDRI-RO, and further verifying the relationships existing between the quality of life and some socio-economic variables considered relevant for the process of rural development in Rondônia. To realize this objective primary data collected by previously tested questionnares which were applied by technical staff of EMATER-RO to a target population of 133 rural producers were used. In order to procede with the analyses from the informa tion obtained, the methodology developed by GUERRERO (17 ) was used to establish profiles of the quality of life of the rural population. The following analytical instruments were adopted to analise the data: tabular analysis, correlation analysis, factorial analysis and multiple linear correlation analysis. The tabular analysis was used to show the situation of the producers in the region investigated, delineating a profile of the conditions of life of these producers. Before using the factorial analysis to determine the collective behaviour of the components of the variable quality of life, identifying the basic factors of each group constituted by these components, use was made of the correlation analysis to verify the relationship existing between the referred to com ponents and the socio-economic variables. Finally the regression analysis was used to visualize a better understanding of the behaviour of the variable quality of life, as a dependent variable, in relation to the independent variables, or better,verify the explanatory power of the socioecnomic variables on the dependent variable. The results presented by the referred to analyses concluded that the rural producers of PIC Ouro Preto, in spite of presenting reasonable living conditions, presented a low educati onal levei a low alimentary standard and an unsatisfactory access to the welfare services. Although, the variable quality of was identified by two factors; the alimentary factor and the domestic factor, which, together, after being submitted to regression ana lysis, it was visualized that the same is explaned inversely by the variable mumber of residents and in a positive form with the variable gross income, civil integration and principally by the family education since the first two variables showed a low explanatory power.