Authors:
Adeoye A, Yusuf S.A.,SalmanK. K., Adepoju A.O., Adejumo D.R. and Taiwo A.M. ,Nigeria |
Abstract:
This study analyzed asset ownership and poverty status of female-headed households (FHH) in
rural Nigeria using the 2013 General Household SurveyData collected by National Bureau of
Statistic. Descriptive statistics, principal component analysis, Foster, Greer and Thorbeeke and
Ordered Probit models at ?0.05 were used to analyse data collected from 424 FHH. The results
revealed that asset index was highest in South-West Geo-political zone and lowest in NorthCentral. Mean per capita expenditure was N30, 258.6 while the poverty line was N20, 172.4 per
annum. However, poverty incidence, depth and severity were higher in the North-Central
geopolitical zone than the South-West counterparts. Aggregate asset index, educational status
and membership of cooperative society of FHH significantly determined their poverty status.
Also, additional aggregate asset for FHH reduced the probability of being core poor by 0.8% and
likelihood of moderately poor by 0.9%. Female-headed household being in the North-East,
North-West, South-East and South-Southhad theprobability of being poor reduced by 38.8%,
50.2%, 31.0%, 22.4% and 21.4% respectively relative to the North-Central.The study
recommends that FHH should be involved in social network and accruing more skills since both
are poverty reducing strategies. |
