Factores sociodemográficos que inciden en el emprendimiento rural de jóvenes en Antioquia, Colombia

Entrepreneurship becomes a force that enables the revitalization of rural territories and agricultural development, consequently, it is important to identify the socioeconomic factors that affect rural entrepreneurship of young people belonging to five Faculties of Agricultural Sciences of the universities in the Department of Antioquia in Colombia. For this, an information collection instrument was designed and applied, previously validated with a qualitative approach, collecting 427 complete responses. Statistical chi-square tests were performed to determine the degree of association of entrepreneurial activity with measured sociodemographic variables such as gender, age, marital status, education, family environment and dependents. Once the existence of associations between the variables was verified, a multiple correspondence analysis was carried out in order to identify patterns and trends between the variables. The results show a greater favorability for entrepreneurship in rural Antioquia for those subjects belonging to the upper strata of the population, mostly men, with postgraduate studies, from families where the parents have at least a university degree, with a different situation than being single and with an age range that ranges from 32 to 38 years. Men are more likely to be entrepreneurs than women in rural areas.