| dc.description.abstract | Poverty is pronounced deprivation in wellbeing and a person to be termed poor is when one doesn’t have enough income or consumption to put them above some adequate minimum threshold, according to the World Bank and it is one of the main problems facing the youth nationally and globally. The main aim of the study was to gauge the social demographic factors associated with poverty among the youth in Makandwa village were 105 respondents who were youths aged between 18to 35 years of age was obtained using a questionnaire survey. According to the study, 42% of the respondents live in poverty .The results indicated that 48% of the respondents were obtained from Males. The study showed that the average daily expenditure as 22,833.33 Uganda Shillings, the minimum 1,000 Uganda shillings and maximum as 45,000 Uganda shillings with the average monthly income obtained is 567,628.6 Uganda Shillings with the minimum and maximum income as 11,000 and 6,000,000 Uganda shillings. The study showed a significant positive relationship between poverty and variables including; being uneducated, primary as the highest level of education, financial dependence and neither owning nor renting any land. The variables with a significant negative relationship with poverty included; monthly income and owning land. Furthermore, the results showed that youths who neither rent nor own any land are 0.0349188 less likely to be poor than those who rent or own land. Therefore, the probability of a being poor reduces by 42.74% (dy/dx= 0.4274074) if a youth owns a piece of land as shown in Table 4.5. In conclusion, level of education, financial dependence, monthly income and land ownership are factors associated with poverty among the youth and the study recommended the youth should be sensitized and encouraged about various financial behaviours that will promote their breakeven from financial dependence, Government should provide scholarships for higher levels of education so as to boost the youth into attaining higher levels of education as one of the ways of poverty alleviation, the youths are recommended to look for a jobs whether part time or full time, possibly asking for a raise for those who are employed, cutting off some unnecessary expenses especially in recreation and entertainment to increase their monthly income, the government was recommended upon enforcing favorable land reforms’ policy to increase land access among poor and vulnerable groups of people for example; redistributing unused agricultural land for productivity and income increase among the landless and poor youth, promoting rental markets for agricultural land to increase income to the idle land owners and for efficient agricultural and financial productivity of the idle land by the tenants. | en_US |
