Covid-19 and the Employment Situation: A Cluster Analysis for the Rural Parish of Mariscal Sucre

Abstract

Labor population of the Mariscal Sucre parish faces many challenges given the different problems that arise over time, it is known that within rural life, the means of generating income for families is agriculture to a large extent, but due to the lack of benefits and stability, many have chosen to venture into other labor fields,  adding to this is the pandemic caused by COVID-19, which has only widened the existing gap in development with its urban counterpart. In the present research, the statistical methodology of Cluster Analysis was used, applied to certain variables that referred to the time periods 2020 – 2022 respectively, highlighting the difficulty that the inhabitants have to face their day to day, in addition to the fact that the people who dedicate their time to agriculture are already aging, And every time they witness the few guarantees offered by this activity,  at the same time that it is a small group of people who have been infected by the COVID-19 virus, but at work level they have mostly been affected greatly.