This is what happens when people talk first out of complete ignorance to the facts....
Upper Middle Class
13%, Upper class
5%, Rich
2% =
20%
Middle
26%, Lower Middle
13%, Low Income
30.6%, Poor
10.4% =
80%
0. Poverty:
USD$316 or less to live like
10.4% of these households
1. Low income:
USD$527 to 922 to live like
30.6% of these households
2. Low middle class:
USD$922 to 1,186 to live like
13% of these households
3. Middle class:
USD$1,186 to 4,216 to live like
26% of these households
4. Upper middle class:
USD$ 4,216 to 6,588 to live like
13% of these households
5. Upper class:
USD$6,588 to 26,351 to live like
5% of these households
6. Rich/wealthy:
USD$26,351 + to live like
2% of these households
The DR is classified as an UPPER MIDDLE INCOME developing nation by the WB, that's is based on their way to look at financial figures and the actual breakdown of HH with a level of middle class and up. The DR is also classified as having a majority of population in the lower economic scale, here POPULATION figures are used for the actual breakdown.
The DR has never been nor will ever be presented by ME as a rich or as a majority middle class POPULATION, but a majority of MIDDLE INCOME HH and up when it comes to that section of breakdown in financial surveys and reports.
In the DR there are more HOUSEHOLDS with a middle and up income than the number of low and poor ones, that's a fact! That you want to use POPULATION to reflect HOUSEHOLD income breakdowns, is beyond me and anybody with a basic understanding of statistics and socioeconomic breakdowns.
There's reality and then there's the la la land you guys want to impose unto others about the DR, which is the farthest from the reality of this county and the economy we live in.
This below was an article made about the DR's economic classes on 2009, based on the figures from several sources other than the Dominican gov:
Las clases sociales en Rep?blica Dominicana
Publicado el 19 julio 2009 por Economista Dominicano
Las clases sociales en Rep?blica Dominicana | ECONOMISTA DOMINICANO
Un aspecto muy t?pico de las sociedades capitalistas es la formaci?n de clases sociales. Esto se debe a la especializaci?n requerida en los esquemas econ?micos, que con su desarrollo tiende a complicarse y se hace impracticable que un individuo pueda hacer todo lo necesario para crear un producto y/o un servicio. Para mayor eficiencia y desarrollo, cada funci?n en la creaci?n de un producto y/o servicio se especializa, con cada persona tomando una o dos funciones. Hoy en d?a la Rep?blica Dominicana est? dividida en varias clases sociales, pero no siempre fue as?.
La poblaci?n de Rep?blica Dominicana puede ser dividida de la siguiente manera:
Clase alta: 6% de la poblaci?n (570,000 personas / 142,500 hogares).
Clase media-alta: 17% de la poblaci?n (1.6 millones de personas / 400,000 hogares).
Clase media: 20% de la poblaci?n (1.9 millones de personas / 475,000 hogares).
Clase baja: 47% de la poblaci?n (4.5 millones de personas / 1,125,000 hogares).
Indigencia: 10% de la poblaci?n (950,000 personas / 237,500 hogares).
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Now take note above on the figures the economist reports about the Dominican economic classes. Notice how the Low Middle Class is fused with the Low Income Class entirely for this report.
Clase alta: 6% de la poblaci?n (570,000 personas / 142,500 hogares). (2009)
(Here they use 4.03 people per HH)
5. Upper class:
USD$6,588 to 26,351 to live like
5% of these households (2011)
6. Rich/wealthy:
USD$26,351 + to live like
2% of these households (2011)
5 + 6 = 7%
Clase media-alta: 17% de la poblaci?n (1.6 millones de personas / 400,000 hogares).
(Here they use 4 people per HH)
4. Upper middle class:
USD$ 4,216 to 6,588 to live like
13% of these households
Clase media: 20% de la poblaci?n (1.9 millones de personas / 475,000 hogares).
(Here they use 4 people per HH)
3. Middle class:
USD$1,186 to 4,216 to live like
26% of these households
***And here is where they fused the LOW MIDDLE INCOME with the LOW INCOME class:
Clase baja: 47% de la poblaci?n (4.5 millones de personas / 1,125,000 hogares).
(Here they use 4 people per HH)
1. Low income:
USD$527 to 922 to live like
30.6% of these households
2. Low middle class:
USD$922 to 1,186 to live like
13% of these households
47% - 13% = 34% (2009)
Indigencia: 10% de la poblaci?n (950,000 personas / 237,500 hogares).
(Here they use 4 people per HH)
0. Poverty:
USD$316 or less to live like
10.4% of these households
We as a business, offer our clients a close to as possible financial report based on our surveys of HHI in the DR, where homes are broken into 6 levels based on their total HHI. The use of LOW MIDDLE CLASS as an economic indicator is ONLY factored when relating to economic interests, not so when researched from social demographics surveys standpoint. Socio demographics are interested in the individual population in regards to their common social interests (social classes), whilst the social economic statistics reflect onto the grouping of the same population but not as individuals or their social interests. Rather the interests are broken down into subgroups based on marketing and purchase/affordability indicators (economic classes).
Notice how they use 4 individuals per HH in their breakdown in all levels, but in the Rich/Upper class they tabulated to 4.03 per HH!!!
The DR data reflects a much lower HH grouping in the higher scales, and also true for the upper middle class.
The lower economic levels are far more than 4 individuals per HH as well. As you can see, the housing breakdown is more of a balancing act in this report than actual numbers based on surveys to the effect.
