Empirical Assessment of Some Household Related Factors Affecting the Wellbeing of Children in Rural Areas: Particular Study of Two Gandas of Dawoo and Becho Districts
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2006-06-20
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
A number of factors related to the households in which children grow up influences the
wellbeing of children in rural areas. Some of the household related factors known to affect the
wellbeing of children are the size of the household, children's parental status, education and
health of the parent, household livelihood, and access to services. On the other hand, the
children's wellbeing is indicated by status of their education, health, dietary condition and
sanitation. Likewise, it was found that the households related factors do not uniformly
determine these wellbeing indicators of children. Hence, factors that are relevant to education
of children may not necessarily be relevant to health or other wellbeing indicators such as diet
and sanitation. The directions of the relationship also vary from one variable to the other and
are generally complex. Moreover, some of the findings of this research are consistent with
previous studies while others are not
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