نتایج جستجو برای: household size

تعداد نتایج: 603186  

Journal: :Environmental management 2008
Weiqi Zhou Austin Troy Morgan Grove

This article investigates how remotely sensed lawn characteristics, such as parcel lawn area and parcel lawn greenness, combined with household characteristics, can be used to predict household lawn fertilization practices on private residential lands. This study involves two watersheds, Glyndon and Baisman's Run, in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. Parcel lawn area and lawn greenness were deri...

Poverty line, both with the absolute and relative definitions, is a quite popular policy tool for characterizing the poor people from non-poor With taking into account the households’ characteristics, this research intends to estimate the poverty lines among urban areas of Iran. To this end, we use the well- know linear expenditures system at household level and households’ income and expenditu...

Low yield of maize continues to affect the livelihood of smallholder farmers in the Zabzugu-Tatale area despite the introduction of a high yielding Obatanpa maize variety. The study used a cross-sectional survey design with 240 randomly sampled household heads growing maize to examine determinants of adoption of Obatampa varieties (IMVs) by farmers in the Zabzugu-Tatale area in the Northern Reg...

2007
Hong Son Nghiem Tim Coelli Prasada Rao

In this paper we analyse the effects of microfinance programs upon household welfare in Vietnam. Our analytical framework builds upon the rural household models of Singh et al. (1986) and Rosenzweig (1990). Data on 470 households across 25 villages was collected using a quasiexperiment survey approach to overcome self-selection bias. In our econometric analysis the welfare effects of microfinan...

Journal: :iau international journal of social sciences 2014
mahmoud ghazi tabatabaei nasrin omidvar jamileh alihosseini abouali vedadhir

food insecurity, as a multi-faceted problem with far-reaching health and societal consequences, is prevalent among disadvantaged households. household food insecurity has made the notion operationally useful in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies. this study was to investigate the socio-demographic associates contributing to severity of food insecurity among vuln...

The groundnut plant has the ability to survive in areas of low rainfall because it is a legume and it increases soil fertility by fixing nitrogen in the soil. The study area is known by erratic and uneven rainfall while groundnut is the main cash crop in the area. The study identified the groundnut market outlets, factor affecting groundnut market outlet choice and identifies farm level women r...

2012
Tjandra Y. Aditama Gina Samaan Rita Kusriastuti Ondri Dwi Sampurno Wilfried Purba Misriyah Hari Santoso Arie Bratasena Anas Maruf Elvieda Sariwati Vivi Setiawaty Kathryn Glass Kamalini Lokuge Paul M. Kelly I. Nyoman Kandun

BACKGROUND Disease transmission patterns are needed to inform public health interventions, but remain largely unknown for avian influenza H5N1 virus infections. A recent study on the 139 outbreaks detected in Indonesia between 2005 and 2009 found that the type of exposure to sources of H5N1 virus for both the index case and their household members impacted the risk of additional cases in the ho...

2013
Jie Song Hong Ji Benchang Shia Shuangge Ma

BACKGROUND The main goal of this study is to examine the distributions of illness conditions and resulting medical expenditures and their associated factors. To achieve this goal, an in-house survey was conducted in August of 2012 in rural Beijing, the capital city of China. RESULTS The survey was conducted in Nanjianchang and Beijianchang, which are two villages 20 KM away from Miyun, a sate...

2007
Angus Deaton Christina Paxson

Household scale economies are plausibly attributed to shared household public goods that make larger households better off at the same level of per capita resources. Larger households should therefore have higher per capita consumption of private goods, such as food, provided that they do not substitute too much toward the effectively cheaper public goods. The evidence shows exactly the opposit...

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