A SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE WITH ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: MICRO-REGIONS DE RIO GRANDE DO NORTE IN 2015
demography; education; basic education; quality index
Demography is a multidisciplinary area of knowledge that studies the human populations and its time evolution, regarding to its size, spatial distribution and composition. Among the variables that comprise this multidisciplinarity, one of the most important is education.1 . Thus, the objective of this work is to evaluate the quality of the allocation of public resources from the FUNDEB (Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Enhancement of Education Professionals Fund), specifically, in elementary school, in the municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte, from the perspective of micro-regions. The period chosen was the year of 2015, that cprresponds to the release of the last result of the IDEB (Development of Basic Education Index). To this end, three databases were used: the SIOPE (Information on Public Budgets in Education System), the School Census and the IDEB. The selected variables in these databases were: the number of registrations in the municipal education network, the expenditure of each municipality with the Elementary School and the results of the IDEB. The methodology used was developed by Brunet, Bertê and Borges (2008), which created a Quality of Education Index, resulting from the ratio between the Performance Index and the Expenditure Index, both for the same year. Such index allows the classification of municipalities as to the quality of public expenditure on Basic Education.