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Remittance Recipients in Ecuador A Public Opinion Research Study

Remittance Recipients in Ecuador A Public Opinion Research Study. March - May 2003. National Poll . 3,320 interviews with a representative sample of all Ecuadorian adults. The margin of error for the national poll is 1.8 percentage points.

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Remittance Recipients in Ecuador A Public Opinion Research Study

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  1. Remittance Recipients in EcuadorA Public Opinion Research Study March - May 2003

  2. National Poll • 3,320 interviews with a representative sample of all Ecuadorian adults. • The margin of error for the national poll is 1.8 percentage points. • The national poll includes a sub-sample of 476 Ecuadorians that receive money from relatives in foreign countries. • The margin of error for the sub-sample of remittance recipients is 4.7 percentage points. • CEDATOS – Gallup International Ecuador conducted the field work for poll in March – April of 2003.

  3. The Remittance Recipients Sample476 interviews 100% 100% Ecuadorians residents 18 years of age or older 100% Receive money from relatives in a foreign country

  4. Demographics of Remittance Recipients • Remittance recipients in Ecuador are overwhelmingly females. • Remittance recipients in Ecuador have a significantly higher monthly income and a higher level of education than the average Ecuadorian. • Remittance recipients in Ecuador – on average - are much older than the average Ecuadorian. • A large majority of remittance senders live in the United States, Spain and Italy.

  5. Remittance Recipients Gender

  6. Remittance Recipients vs. Ecuador CensusGender

  7. Remittance Recipients Monthly Income

  8. Remittance Recipients vs. Ecuador CensusMonthly Income

  9. Remittance RecipientsEducation

  10. Remittance Recipients vs. Ecuador CensusEducation

  11. Remittance Recipients Age

  12. Remittance Recipients vs. Ecuador CensusAge

  13. Regions of National Poll • Costa Sur: Guayaquil and Machala • Sierra Centro: Quito, Ambato and Santo Domingo • Costa Norte: Manta, Portoviejo, Esmeraldas, El Carmen and Quevedo • Sierra Sur: Cuenca, Azogues, and Loja • Amazon: Nueva Loja and Puyo

  14. Remittance RecipientsRegion

  15. Remittance Recipients vs. Ecuador CensusRegion

  16. Country of Residence of Remittance Senders

  17. How Long Have Your Relatives Lived Abroad?

  18. Type of Relatives that send Remittances

  19. Ecuador Receives $1.4 Billion Dollars in Remittances Yearly • 14 percent of Ecuadorian adults – approximately 1 million people - receive remittances from relatives that live in a foreign country. • The average Ecuadorian remittance recipient gets money from their relatives abroad about 8 times per year. • The average remittance sent to Ecuador is approximately $175 dollars.

  20. National Poll3,320 Interviews Do you receive remittances from relatives that live in a foreign country?

  21. The Average Ecuadorian Remittance Recipient gets Money 8 times per year How Frequently Do You Receive Remittances?

  22. How Frequently Do You Receive Remittances?“once a month” answers by region

  23. The average remittance sent to Ecuador is approximately $175 dollarsHow much money do you receive with each remittance?

  24. How much money do you receive with each remittance?

  25. How Long Have You Been Receiving Remittances?

  26. Two-thirds of all remittances that arrive in Ecuador are sent through International Cash Remittance Companies • More than half of remittance recipients in Ecuador get their money through Delgado or Western Union. • Only 17 percent of remittance recipients in Ecuador get their money through established financial institutions. • 46 percent of remittance recipients in Ecuador have a bank account.

  27. How Does Your Family Normally Send Money?

  28. How Does Your Family Normally Send Money?

  29. Who chooses the way by which Remittances are sent ?

  30. Remittance Recipients Do You Have A Bank Account?

  31. Do You Have A Bank Account?Country of Residence of Remittance Senders

  32. Do You Have A Bank Account?Education“yes” answers only

  33. Remittance Recipients Are you familiar with ATM machines and how to use them?

  34. Are You Familiar With ATM Machines And How To Use Them?Education“yes” answers only

  35. A large majority of Ecuadorian Remittance recipients use the money on “regular” expenditures. • 61 percent of Ecuadorian remittance recipients use the money for day-to-day expenditures like paying rent and buying food or medicine. • 22 percent of Ecuadorian remittance recipients use the money for long-term investments. • 17 percent of Ecuadorian remittance recipients use the money for “luxuries”.

  36. How Is The Money Spent?

  37. How Is The Money Spent?Income

  38. Who Decides How The Money Is Spent?

  39. The most important Finding of our Poll may very well be that the Remittance Process is driving Emigration in Ecuador

  40. “One of the principal reasons that people leave Ecuador is so that they can send money to their families.”

  41. Focus Groups

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