Determinants of Household Poverty in Ethiopia

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of household poverty in Ethiopia. The study used the national survey data collected by the World Bank during the second phase in 2014. The study employed a binary logistic regression model to identify the determinants of household poverty. Results show that educational level of the household head, family size, dependency ratio, residence of the household, the region in which the household resides, ownership of non-farm enterprises (construction), economic status of the household (high), source of start-up enterprises (credit and saving institutions), and lack of supporting institutions were the factors affecting the probability that a household is poor.

KEYWORDS:

• Determinants
• binary logistic regression
• poverty
• Ethiopia

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Funding

The authors received no direct funding for this study