The determinants of household energy fuel choice have not been studied in some developing countries, including Lesotho, despite the potential benefits such a study might for policy design and implementation. This uses data collected by Lesotho’s Bureau Statistics through national consumption survey 2017, multinomial logistic regression to analyse Lesotho. results indicate that gender head does ...

The study attempts to estimate the food security status and identify the determinants of food security among households in Nsukka metropolis of Enugu State, Nigeria. It was found that about 60 per cent of the households are food insecure, using expenditure method of estimating food security status. Further analysis using the binary logistic regression method identified income and age of househo...

The high cost of health care can produce severe financial shock on poor households that can ill afford it. Faced with catastrophic health care spending, poor households are forced to reduce their expenses on basic items such as food, transportation, and education; use their savings, if there are any; or borrow in order to cope with the medical bills of one or more of their members. Prolonged—an...

This study examines the association between decision-making power, with other background variables, and domestic violence against single, never-married women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Secondary analysis using data from a 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics domestic violence survey revealed that decision-making power and age were significant predictors of physical an...

This study uses the 2004 ACNielsen Homescan panel data to estimate the price premiums and discounts associated with fresh tomatoes among regional markets, focusing on the organic attribute. The results suggest that consumers paid $0.25/lb more for organic fresh tomatoes in the New York–Philadelphia market. The organic premiums are estimated to be $0.14/lb in the Chicago–Baltimore/Washington and...

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...

<p>Background The phenomenon of women working outside the home is no longer a foreign conversation. Objective purpose this research to describe struggle female head house survive support family. Methods This uses qualitative approach with case study method. data in form observations and interviews 10 heads households who live Samarinda City. Results Based on results interviews, economical...

in order to analyse the effective factors contributing to land fragmentation, required data ‎were collected by questionnaire from 151 farmers who were selected through a stratified random ‎sampling design from 12 villages of ramjerd yek subdistrict of marvdasht country. factor analysis ‎was used to identity explanatory factors of land fragmentation. the variables of natural-farming, ‎socio-cult...

Obesity prevalence varies by income and education level, although patterns might differ among adults and youths (1-3). Previous analyses of national data showed that the prevalence of childhood obesity by income and education of household head varied across race/Hispanic origin groups (4). CDC analyzed 2011-2014 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to obtain e...