Cuestionario socioeconómico aplicado a grupos familiares del Distrito Capital para investigaciones relacionadas con la salud pública

the evaluation of aspects socioeconomic in communities, one becomes by means of the graffar-méndez castellano me thod (1994), this one includes four variables and it does not reflect reality of the social condition of the families. design questionnaire socioeconomic condition (qsec), with variables that drew a reality adapted of the observed thing. it was applied from 1996, with transformations: 1999, 2004 and 2005, to 959 families. in the qsec, they included re lated aspects with characteristics of the familiar group, overcrowding, dependency, familiar entrance, type and pos session of the house, number of atmospheres, provision and frequency whereupon the water is received, services public in the com munity. to each one a score was assigned to him, whose sum allowed to define four categories for socioeco no mic condition. one got up the level of instruction of the head of the home and the mother, source of entrance, ex pen ses in feeding, with the purpose of comparing with graf far, quarters to sleep and number of services in the home. objective it is to present a questionnaire, to be used in in vestigations; it was validated by means of parallel forms, the coefficient was used alpha of cronbach, doing use of spss for win dows. results: high trustworthiness (0,80 < a < 0,89). the correlations, for the validation, between so cioeco nomic condition and social layer, gave: 2001 (r = 0.85), 155; 2004 (r = 0.70), 157 and 2005 (r = 0.93), 112 families, all of the me tropolitan area of caracas. it concludes that: the questionnaire is reliable, valid and it is possible to be used