The total fertility rate in Pakistan is as high as 5.4, that is result of low contraceptive prevalence rate of only 28 percent. By using probit model on primary data taken from a sample of 1000 women (15-49 years) from two districts of Punjab (Pakistan), i.e. Bahawalpur and Lahore, we have analyzed the factors related to household characteristics which are responsible for low contraceptive prev...

this study examined the nature and patterns of rice consumption in nigeria, using kwara state as a case study. the study methodology comprised a two stage sampling technique which was used to survey 110 rice consumer households across two villages and six towns in kwara state. analytical tools used in the study include descriptive statistics and the multinomial logit model. the major factors th...

Background: Achievement of food security has become one of the major challenges of most developing countries, including Zimbabwe. This study was designed to investigate the effect of agricultural commercialization on household food security. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data for the 2017/18 farming season collected from 165 smallholder farmer households in Zhombe north rural distric...

This paper is about income and poverty dynamics and their socioeconomic correlates. The first half of the paper aims to establish some of the salient facts for Britain, applying the pioneering methods of Bane and Ellwood (1986). Important for poverty dynamics are changes in labour earnings from persons other than the household head, changes in non-labour income (including benefits), and changes...

Title of Dissertation: PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR. Habiba Djebbari, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Anna Alberini, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor Jeffrey A. Smith, Department of Economics How does the distribution of power within the household affect the nutrition of its members? In 1998, the largest social program in rural Mexico (PR...

A prognosis model has been developed for solid waste generation from households in Hoi An City, a famous tourist city in Viet Nam. Waste sampling, followed by a questionnaire survey, was carried out to gather data. The Bayesian model average method was used to identify factors significantly associated with waste generation. Multivariate linear regression analysis was then applied to evaluate th...

BACKGROUND Walking to school may be an important source of daily physical activity in children's lives, and government agencies are supporting programs to encourage walking to school (e.g., Safe Routes to School and the CDC's KidsWalk programs). However, little research has looked at differences in behavior across racial/ethnic and income groups. METHODS This cross-sectional study used data f...

Post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety symptoms are common outcomes following earthquakes, and may persist for months and years. This study systematically examined the impact of neighbourhood damage exposure and average household income on psychological distress and functioning in 600 residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 months after the fatal February, 2011 earthquake. Participan...