[ES] Este artículo propone una panorámica amplia de la dependencia desde un enfoque social y poblacional. Tras un repaso histórico del surgimiento de la dependencia como tema de política social, se dibuja su relevancia en el conjunto de la población española mediante la explotación de la Encuesta sobre discapacidad, autonomía personal y situaciones de dependencia (EDAD). Finalmente, se realiza un ensayo de síntesis de dicha información, con aplicación de métodos estadísticos de escalamiento, en el que, por una parte, planteamos la existencia de una estructura jerárquica de la discapacidad y, por otra, proponemos una tipología sencilla de dependencia a la que se adapta la mayoría de la población estudiada.

[EN] Taking a social and demographic approach, this article presents a panoramic view of dependency in Spain. After examining the emergence of dependency as a topic of social policy, the article sketches its relevance among the Spanish population using the data provided by the poll administered by the National Statistic Institute called Disability, Personal Autonomy and Dependency Situations. The information is finally summed up applying scaling statistical methods. We posit, on the one hand, the existence of a hierarchical structure of disability and, on the other hand, we propose a simple dependence typology which we consider helpful to classify the majority of the researched population.

Taking a social and demographic approach, this article presents a panoramic view of dependency in Spain. After examining the emergence of dependency as a topic of social policy, the article sketches its relevance among the Spanish population using the data provided by the poll administered by the National Statistic Institute called ‘Disability, Personal Autonomy and Dependency Situations’. The information is finally summed up applying scaling statistical methods. We posit, on the one hand, the existence of a hierarchical structure of disability and, on the other hand, we propose a simple dependence typology which we consider helpful to classify the majority of the researched population.

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