This paper studies financial behaviors of households in China’s Beijing urban area. Demographic and psychometrical data were collected through questionnaire surveys and analyzed by logistic regression and Tobit regression methods. Several important factors which affect the willingness of the investigated households to participate in investment activities and their portfolio allocation decisions...

THE task of planning urban land-use and transportation systems has become more challenging in the face of an increasing set of dynamic influences on the behavior of households and businesses. The integration of the global economy, leading to both a quantitative and qualitative change in flows of information, capital, people, and goods, has, in part, led to a realignment of land uses. While some...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to measure the urinary iodine excretion of volunteers who daily consumed iodized salt and to evaluate whether the current iodine content in salt is appropriate. A field trial study was then conducted to determine how the salt iodization content should be adjusted, either to prevent iodine deficiency or to avoid excess consumption. METHODS A total of 1,099 vol...

This study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of Imo state. Primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. Descriptive statistics and Mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...

In Arequipa, Peru, vectorborne transmission of Chagas disease by Triatoma infestans has become an urban problem. We conducted an entomologic survey in a periurban community of Arequipa to identify risk factors for triatomine infestation and determinants of vector population densities. Of 374 households surveyed, triatomines were collected from 194 (52%), and Trypanosoma cruzi-carrying triatomin...

In the developing world, little is known about urban chronic poverty based on quantitative evidence mainly due to lack of data tracking the same households over time. In this paper, we analyse 3 waves of a unique and rich panel data set on 1500 households collected through the Ethiopian Urban Household Surveys from 1994 to 1997. Based on real total household expenditure per month as our preferr...

We describe the degree to which household income is negatively associated with the prevalence of different types of disability (i.e., medical impairments) in China using data from the 2006 Second National Survey of Disabled Persons. We then calculate the extra costs of disability across different types of households and show how these costs differ by the type and severity of disability in both ...