TY - JOUR AU - David Lastre AU - Melanie Paez Santana AU - Olga López Tumbaco PY - 2019/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Statistical analysis of contingency tables and square chi to measure the migration flow in Ecuador in 2018 JF - Ecuadorian Science Journal JA - Ecuad. Sci. J VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Research Paper DO - 10.46480/esj.3.1.24 UR - https://journals.gdeon.org/index.php/esj/article/view/24 AB - The objective of this work is to determine the causes for people to migrate to other countries, due to the lack of solutions that their country of origin denies, becoming a phenomenon of constant growth, giving way to overpopulation problems in the countries of destination as well as the lack of job opportunities for the inhabitants of those countries, to provide a solution to the variables that cause migration, a database corresponding to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) has been taken, with a total of 7` 000,000 records, which obtained a sample of 1,000,000 records that will be analyzed through contingency tables and determine the linear dependence of the variables. The chi-square statistic was used with hypothesis tests. As a result, 62% foreigners entered and left the country, compared to 38% of the country that also decided to leave due to residence. ER -