AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF POVERTY IN FAYOUM GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2018, Page 94-117 PDF (7.25 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2018.191063 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| M. A Galal | ||||
| Agricultural Economics Dept., Fac. Of Agric., El- Fayoum Univ. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The aim of this research is to identify the personal and social characteristics of poor rural households in the study area and to construct a quantitative measure of the level of poverty of rural households. It has indications of stability, honesty and ability to discriminate, identify the factors that influence the components of the poverty scale in the study area and identify the most important variables affecting poverty and importance Relative to each of them in the study area, and identify the most important problems faced by poor rural households in the study area and proposals to solve them from the point of view of the respondents. The study was conducted in Fayoum Governorate and Tamiya Center was selected as it is the poorest and most backward center. The village was chosen from Tamiya center random manner. The selected sample size was 160 rural households, 10% of the total size of 1582 rural households. But collected from the head of the household only within each household. The study data were collected by a personal interview questionnaire from July to the end of August, and were based on repetitive tables, percentages, tests of honesty, consistency and ability to discriminate, Poverty scale The most important results were The results showed that about 43.8% of all poor rural households have low economic level, 64.4% have low level of education, 51.3% have low levels of health, and 57.5% have a total poverty level. The most important variables affecting both the economic, educational and health levels of poor rural households were: average per capita income and level of ambition. The study concluded with discussing the most important results and highlighting their theoretical and practical implications. | ||||
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