Covid-19 had an impact on employment and income in Nuevo León: Así Vamos 2021 survey


Monterey, NL. the 5th Survey Here We Go 2021from How are we doing Nuevo Leon?reflected the impact that the pandemic has left in the entity, in particular, the percentage of the population without access to any health service grew; also showed a drop in school performance; job loss and decrease in incomeas well as the direct effects on the mental health.

20.6% of the surveyed population stated that they were not affiliated with any health Service in 2021, compared to 8.6% in 2019. Care for health conditions in the Mexican Social Security Institute decreased by 13 percentage points (from 58 to 45%).

On the other hand, the Job’s lose on average was 13.4%, while the decrease in household income climbed to 32.4 percent.

In addition, 65.7% of households where there was a member studying in public institutionsconsidered that the rschool performance was lower during 2021 than in 2019. Additional data on the impact of Covid-19 is that 35.9% of the population said they felt down or depressed during the pandemic.

The survey was conducted in 4,419 households in the state, from September 29 to December 8, in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL).

The study, which is carried out every year and is representative at the state level, by gender and in 11 metropolitan municipalities, also offered a balance on the management of James Rodriguez. For 84% of the population, his administration was worse or as bad as expected and more than half of the population (52.4%) considered that the greatest progress during his administration was: “none”.

On the other hand, the expectations with the governor Samuel Garcia they are positive; 71.6% considered that New Lion will improve during their management and for 41.5%, the main challenge in the first year is the security.

The results were presented in front of the state governor and the secretaries; nine metropolitan mayors, a female mayor, the president of the local Congress, Yvonne Alvarezthe PAN senator for Nuevo León, Victor Fuentesas well as representatives of autonomous institutions, including the State Election Commission (CEE), and the State Commission for Human rights.

the president of How are we doing Nuevo Leon?, David Noel Ramirezoffered to make individual presentations of the results so that each authority knows its challenges and can respond to citizen demands.

Governor of Nuevo Leon Samuel Garcia Sepulvedacommented at an event in the Macroplaza that during this presentation it was mentioned that a third of businesses closed during the pandemic and 15% of jobs were lost, for this reason they decided to open 100% of the economy from this Monday, March 28. February.



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