A.O AKIOYA

[ 1 ] - Measuring Socioeconomic Status of Rural Households in Edo State, Nigeria: An Asset-Based Approach

Available data on farmers’ socioeconomic or poverty status have focused on the use of money-metric measure of income and/or expenditure, an approach that has been criticized. An alternative, proposed to assessing households’ welfare has been to use asset indices; unfortunately, there is dearth of such study in Edo state. This study therefore assessed the socioeconomic status (SES) of farming ho...