Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn (2006) Determinants of Urban Poverty in Debre Markos, Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The study assessed determinants of urban poverty in six Kebeles: Kebele 01, 03, 04, 05, 08, and 12 of Debre Markos town. The source used in the study comes from primary data. A total of 260 household heads were selected to undertake the research and a systematic random sampling was employed to select households. A Logistic regression model was employed and estimated based on the primary data, with the probability of a household being poor as a dependent variable and a set of demographic and socioeconomic variables as the explanatory parameters. By making use of Food Energy Intake (FEI) approach the surveyed households are identified as the poor and non-poor. Based on this, out of the 260 surveyed household heads, 172(66%) of them were found poor, the head count, poverty gap, and severity index of the survey obtained as 0.66, 0.21 and 0.09 respectively. The variables that are positively correlated with the probability of being poor are: sex, household size, and disease incidence of the household. Variables negatively correlated with probability of being poor are: income, educational level, marital status, employment, age, housing tenure, and water source. Variables, which affected significantly the incidence of poverty in the town, are: average monthly income, family size, educational level, and disease incidence of the households. Religion, ethnic group, dependency, productive family members, main source of water and status of electric connection were found statistically insignificant indicators of poverty. That incidence of poverty is rampant among the surveyed households (66%), 0.66 the head count ratio, 0.21 poverty gap, and 0.09 the severity index in the town respectively calls for urgent interventions aimed at curbing the fate of the poor.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2018 09:46 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2018 09:46 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6334 |
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