The factors affecting household welfare as a result of increase in commodity price. A case study of Luwero district

Abstract

The study entitled “The factors affecting household welfare as a result of increase in commodity price. Where by the case study was Luwero district. The study had the following objectives to establish how demographic characteristics of HHs are associated with HH welfare due to price increase of commodities, to establish how socio-economic (e.g. education) factors are associated with HH welfare due to price increase of commodities and to provide recommendations on how to improve Household welfare due to price increase of commodities. A total of 100 respondents were chosen. The study was cross sectional in nature where it employed random sampling to select the respondents. The study findings revealed that level of education was found to profoundly affect household welfare in terms of meal intake since p value 0.007<0.05 whereby it revealed that majority had meal sizes reduced significantly and also influenced meal sizes not to change at all especially in among respondents who had finished primary and secondary level. Also Employment (p(0.008)<0.05) status was found to statistically affect meal intake among people whereby most those working in unpaid labor, self-employment, and employment in private sector faced increased reduction in meal size intake as prices rose, but those working for paid employment, it caused more of meal intake remaining the same despite increasing commodity prices. Another factor that was revealed to affect household welfare was the sex head of Household (p (0.001)<0.05) affected size of meal intake during price increase of commodities whereby female headed households were more affected as compared to male headed households. The government should also introduce price quotas for essential commodities like food stuffs, education, this will help to control price changes in critical sectors which are very important to people’s survival.