Private donations in Mexico: An analysis of authorised donors

By focusing on the Mexican authorized donees subsystem, this paper investigates which are the key charateristics of the distribution of private donations amongst the thirty-two states of the Mexican federation. Particularly, taking into account the demographic density, it employs central tendency and dispersión statistics to assess the sub-national differences of the amount of donations. Likewise, the Pearson correlation coefficient is calculated for the variables and in order to discover how they are associated. Based on the analysis of reported donations by the authorized donees, a phenomenon of both geographical and resources concentration is identified, and which characterizes the Mexican non-profit sector