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The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) revealed this week the update of its Political Culture Survey (ECP), which is carried out every two years and on this occasion brings the data for 2023, focused on topics such as the perception of problems, opinion regarding current politics and the feeling of how the country is going.

This report focused on three major points centered on ideologies and perception of current politics, the impact of the economy on social dynamics, the interaction of those consulted with the various sectors and groups of society, and the management given to leisure and free time spaces.

Regarding democracy and politics, 87.6% believe in the right to choose and be elected and 81.2% support the existence of entities such as local, municipal, departmental and national authorities; elected by popular vote. However, when consulting the levels of participation, a different reality can be seen.

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Reviewing the level of satisfaction with the way democracy works In Colombia, 18.1% say they are “very satisfied”, 44.2% declared themselves natural and 33.7% said they are “very dissatisfied”. The Caribbean (27.3%) and Central (18.8%) regions were those that showed the highest satisfaction rates.

ECP Political Culture Survey – Dane

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86.9% of people aged 18 and over said they were registered to vote in the 2022 presidential elections, however, less than 90% went to the polls to participate in this democratic day, a figure that, although high for The national history makes it clear that there is still a high level of abstentionism.

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“Citizens who stated that they had not voted in the presidential elections were asked about the reasons why they did not do so. For the national total, the main reason was disinterest (40.1%), followed by the candidates promising and they do not comply (32.8%), and the politicians are corrupt (28.4%),” said Dane.

ECP Political Culture Survey – Dane

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On the other hand, in the “social capital” chapter, this statistical authority focused on knowing those problems that directly affected them (as an individual or community) in the last year, bringing inflation to light as one of the factors that most influenced negatively in the perception of Colombians.

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At this point, Dane assures that 53.6% of Colombians said that they found a problem in the disproportionate increase in the prices of the family basket, while for 38.1%, the problem was in the rates, quality of provision or lack of public services.

ECP Political Culture Survey – Dane

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Issues such as insecurity (33.9%), mobility (20.4%) and taxes, especially property taxes and their increases (16.3%); They currently have a very low impact on the perception of citizens or at least that is seen in the Dane data.

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Another piece of information that caught our attention had to do with the question “Who would you not like to have as neighbors?”, which according to Dane “in the three previous rounds, the main group against which people aged 18 and Most of them stated that they do not want to have psychoactive substance users as neighbors, with 56.5% in 2023 and a positive variation of +3.5 pp compared to the last round.”

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The second and third places corresponded to ex-combatants (41.7%) and ex-paramilitaries (41.3%), presenting a variation of +3.1 pp in both cases.

Finally, the family continues to be the fundamental pillar in the lives of Colombians, with an impressive 96.9% of the population considering it the most important group. This figure shows a positive increase of 0.9% compared to the previous survey.

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Secondly, free time also gains relevance, with 89.2% of the population valuing it as significant, which represents a notable increase of 1.4% compared to 2021 data. However, work experienced a slight decrease, with 86.2% of the population considering it important, which represents a negative variation of 0.5% compared to the previous year.