International Journal of Local Economic Governance
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

Poverty in Siak District, Riau Province: Its Issues and Contributing Factors

Yunus, Wan Muhammad (Unknown)
., Maryunani (Unknown)
Ashar, Khusnul (Unknown)
Maskie, Ghozali (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Apr 2016

Abstract

This research aims to determine and identify contributing factors to poverty in Siak District based on poverty level guidance. This research took place at Siak District by involving 273 respondents. They are classified into several groups; very poor, poor, near poor and susceptible poor. Multinomial logit is taken as an analysis tool for the research. It describes that poor probability to each level is different and more affected by conditional factors: (i) very poor: land availability and its ownership, weather, infrastructure, public accessibility, size of the family, dependency ratio, asset ownership and job status/level; (ii) poor: social capital and ethnical background; (iii) near poor: land ownership, weather, age, and level of education; (iv) susceptible poor: social isolation, size of the family, asset ownership and job level.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJLEG

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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