Household Multidimensional Poverty Analysis In Non- Capital Towns of Gulomekada Woreda, Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The study was carried out in non-capital towns of Gulomekada woreda which is found in Tigray
National Regional State with the main objective of investigating extent and determinants of
multidimensional poverty in Zalambesa and Sebeya towns. To attain the aforementioned
objective, cross-sectional survey design was employed. The, primary data was collected from
210 randomly selected sample households by proportionally allocating to both towns using
survey questionnaire. In addition, key informant interview and observation were employed to
generate qualitative data from the selected primary sources. Descriptive analysis was used to
analyze the extent of multidimensional poverty and binary logistic regression was employed to
look into determinants of household multidimensional poverty. Alkire-Foster (AF method) was
used to analyze the multidimensional poverty by using three dimensions and eleven indicators. Accordingly, incidence, intensity, multidimensional poverty index (MPI), raw headcount ratio,
censored headcount ratio and contribution of each poverty indicators to the poor people were
computed. The result revealed that the extent of overall multidimensional poor was 31.4% of the
sample households’ with the intensity and MPI of 46.4% and 15% respectively. From the
selected indicators, year of schooling (32.5%), and illness/ disability and morbidity/ (23.9%)
were the highest contributors to the overall poverty incidence in the towns. The result of Binary
logistic regression model revealed that family size, addiction, health problem, expenditure on
health and person per room (crowdedness) were statistically significant determinants for the
household multidimensional poverty. Based on the major findings, enhancing economic
performances of the community and strengthening access to education are recommended. In
addition to this, disease prevention endeavor is one of the vibrant recommendations to alleviate
the poverty status of the community.
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Non-capital town, multidimensional poverty, Gulomekada, Tigray, Ethiopia