Table 6.
Place of birth (State of São Paulo) (%)
Place of birth (SP)
Population attended
Population not attended
Men
Women
Men
Women
Capital
65.9
78.2
73.8
84.0
Other municipalities of the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo
21.2
13.0
12.5
9.0
Other municipalities of the state of São Paulo
12.9
8.8
13.7
7.0
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
In relation to the place of birth, the majority of both the men and the women were either from the Southeast or the Northeast, most being from the Southeast of Brazil. Sao Paulo was the state of origin most often indicated, and its capital was the birth place of most of the interviewees (69.9% of men and 81.1% of women), the great majority being from the capital itself or one of the surrounding municipalities. Regarding the total number of men interviewed, more than 80% declared their residency to be the city of Sao Paulo, and 15.5% said they were of some other municipality of the metropolitan region. Of the residents of the city of Sao Paulo, a little less than half (44.8%) said they were living in the center of the city, and another 19.4% said they lived in the eastern zone of the city. Regarding those women attended and not attended, 87.4% declared residency in the city of Sao Paulo, and another 9.9% declared the larger metropolitan area. Of the women residents of the city of Sao Paulo, 37.5% lived in the eastern zone, 24.4% in the southern zone, and 18.8% in the northern zone. Table 7.
RESULTS OF THE SURVEY: PROFILE OF THE PRETRIAL POPULATION
Source: ITTC/Pastoral Carcerária
Color or race* (%)
Color or race
Population attended
Population not attended
Men
Women
Men
Women
White
29.6
30.9
25.8
37.1
brown
34.5
45.9
39.1
39.3
Black
15.5
12.6
15.6
12.9
Yellow
1.1
0.5
3.9
1.1
Indigenous
1.9
1.4
2.3
2.2
None of the above
15.2
8.7
11.7
5.5
Don’t know
2.2
0.8
1.6
1.8
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Total
* Both the IBGE and our study use self-declaration to identify race and ethnic origin. The IBGE uses colors, and so the study used the same colors as the IBGE (white, brown, black, yellow (Asian), indigenous). Source: ITTC/Pastoral Carcerária
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