The objective of the study is to examine the educational and social profile of young people aged 5-14 of Ecuador by means of a statistical analysis of this sector of the Ecuadorian population, based on data from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment from 2015. The statistical analysis shows the frequency and percentages of the variables used in the investigation. We use contingency tables in order to explore the relationship between the variables under investigation and the poverty in this age group.