Abstract:
South Kalimantan Province is one of the provinces in Indonesia that makes the agricultural
sector a vital sector in its economy. According to BPS (2023), 48.86 percent of poor households
in Indonesia have the main source of income in the agricultural sector. For this reason, it is
necessary to measure poverty in agricultural households to provide input in overcoming poverty
problems in the agricultural sector. By utilizing data from the March 2023 Socio-Economic
Survey (Susenas) and two analysis methods, namely descriptive and binary logistic regression,
this study aims to obtain an overview of the characteristics of agricultural households and
identify what socio-demographic factors affect the poverty status of agricultural households.
Based on the results of Susenas data processing in March 2023, 40.96 percent of agricultural
households in South Kalimantan Province were obtained. The agricultural households are
dominated by the plantation subsector which reaches 46.26%, followed by rice and palawija
agriculture (32.50%), fisheries (10.59%), horticulture (4.94%), livestock (3.47%) and forestry
and other agriculture (2.24%). The results of this study also show that agricultural households are
dominated by those who live in rural areas, the head of the household is male, the average age of
the head of the family is 45 years to 55 years, the last education below junior high school, the
number of household members is 3 to 4 people, owns land and the head of the household has an
agricultural business. Using the Poverty Line (GK) cut off point of each district/city, of the
3,400 agricultural households, 1.59% were poor, while 98.41% were not poor. The results of the
binary logistic regression analysis show that the variables that have a significant effect on the
poverty status of agricultural households in South Kalimantan Province in 2023 are the
classification of regions, the gender of the head of the household, the age of the head of the
household and the number of household members. |
