In order to better target subsidies, the National Planning Department (DNP) launched the Social Registry of Households.
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It is an interoperability system of different databases and sources of information that will allow a better characterization of the population and a better targeting of public policies of the State.
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In total, this tool includes socioeconomic information on the population from the administrative records of 28 different entities, such as the Registry, Migration, Social Prosperitythe Unit for Victims and Adres, among others.
Jorge Iván González, director of National Planning, at the launch of the Social Registry of Households.
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“What the registry does is have a more complete database for public policy. We will know more precisely which people are vulnerable or receive more subsidies than they need,” he said. Jorge Iván González, director of the National Planning Department.
The idea is that all entities can begin to use the data offered by this tool to improve targeting and in the future a universal income registry would come.
50.6% of household heads perceived themselves as poor. In some regions the figure is 80%.
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Through the latter, the objective is that in the future all Colombians begin to report their income as well.
“The stratum as such does not inform about the socioeconomic conditions of people. With this method, for example, a stratum 5 family that has not had a good economic year could receive subsidies,” explained González.
