The purpose of this paper is to analyze the educational and demographic factors related to the head of household and poverty, and to try to explain the probability of being poor. After an evaluation of cross-tabulations between poverty and literacy, as well as labor, demographic and educational variables, a logit model was applied to evaluate the probability of an individual falling into poverty as a function of household characteristics and the educational levels of the head of household. Finally, the importance of education was evaluated in a more complete frame of reference; according to the conclusions, it is more important to consider all the individuals that make up the household, rather than only the head of household.