5.5% of Canarians believe they belong to an upper or upper-middle class, according to microdata from the CIS barometers of the last year, analyzed by the communication consultancy apablo.com.
This is the eighth highest percentage in the country, only behind Madrid (10.5%) Basque Country (8.3%), Catalonia (7.3%), Navarre (7.2%), Balearic Islands (7%), Murcia (6.5%), and Aragon (5.7%).
In the rest of the regions, there are fewer people who consider themselves upper class. Valencian Community (5.4%), Asturias (5%), Cantabria (5%), La Rioja (5%), Andalusia (4.7%), Castile and León (4.3%), Galicia (4.2%), Extremadura (3%) Castile-La Mancha (2.8%).
According to this analysis, 49.3% of Canarians perceive themselves as middle class, 20.3% as lower-middle class, and 13.8% say they are in the lower or poor class.
In addition, 7.1% of Canarians surveyed stated that they do not believe in the concept of 'classes' or that they belong to a class different from those described above. 4% did not want to or could not specify which class they belong to.
Income, Capitals, and Age
Households with higher incomes are the most likely to perceive themselves as 'upper or upper-middle class'. However, classes overlap in many income ranges.
For example, 21.5% of people in households with less than 1,100 euros net per month consider themselves middle class. So does 55.6% in households with incomes over 5,000 euros net per month.
On the other hand, younger people tend to think they belong to a higher social class. 9.2% of people between 20 and 29 years old believe they are upper and upper-middle class.
The percentage decreases in parallel with age to 4.5% of people over 70 years old.
Finally, people who live in a capital tend to feel upper or upper-middle class: 9.1% of the inhabitants of an autonomous capital consider themselves at least upper-middle class. In the case of municipalities without capital status, this figure is 5%.
Some of these communities repeat in the top positions of the same classification, ordered by population that considers itself 'lower' or 'poor' class, led by Galicia (15.7%), Castilla-La Mancha (14.1%), Canary Islands (13.8%), Principality of Asturias (13.6%) and Cantabria (12.9%).
