Como os indicadores do Cadastro Único revelam expressões da questão social no município de Lagarto/Sergipe?

Abstract

The Unified Registry is an operational tool of the Unified Social Assistance System that serves as a database for mapping users of the Social Assistance Policy. The mechanism was instituted by Decree No. 6.135 of June 26, 2007. The aim of CadÚnico is to gather socio-economic information on Brazilian families, mapping the population considered to be on a low income and living in poverty and extreme poverty in the country. The general objective of this research was to qualify quantifiable indicators of gender, race, schooling, income and generation from the Cadastro Único for Federal Government Programs in the municipality of Lagarto/SE between 2020 and 2023. To achieve this, the indicators were collected from the Single Registry sector in the municipality of Lagarto/SE. They were then organized, systematized and contextualized. Finally, the quantitative data from the CadÚnico in that city was analyzed qualitatively. The research is qualitative, exploratory and bibliographical in nature, as well as using elements of documentary research. The social phenomena were analyzed based on Marx's social theory, as this makes it possible to carry out a critical-reflexive analysis of these phenomena considering their socio-historical context, their dynamics and structure from a perspective of totality. The time frame of the data collected from the Lagarto/SE Unified Registry was between 2020 and 2023, as this is the period in which the coronavirus health crisis spread, since it significantly altered the lives of the world's population. The research showed that the data from the indicators analyzed reflect the socio-historical process of the formation of Brazilian society, the social inequality that pervades the country and triggers multiple expressions of the social question experienced by a significant portion of society. This group is an integral part of the Unified Registry, that is, they are families and/or individuals in a situation of socio-economic vulnerability. With this in mind, it was considered that qualifying the aforementioned indicators was of the utmost importance for understanding the profile and helping the workers of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) to understand the demands presented by the public who use this social policy. Given its essentiality in tackling the expressions of the social question, experienced daily by the black, poor, female, single mother, elderly and poorly educated population of this country.