Poverty reduction in Uganda: influence of household related factors

Abstract

This study aimed at examining the influence of household related factors (household heads) on poverty reduction in Uganda. Specifically, the study aimed at studying the influence of household characteristics, income sources and household accessibility to credit on income change preferably increased income as an indicator of poverty reduction in Uganda. Cross sectional data obtained from the 2019/2020 UNHS data set from UBOS was used at univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels of analysis so as to establish any relationship between and among the explanatory and dependent variables in the study. Empirical findings indicated that age, married monogamous, polygamous, never married, completed secondary education, no formal education, post-secondary plus and some primary education, places of residence, crop farming (small scale), domestic remittances, nonagricultural enterprises and wage employment were significant in poverty reduction. However, variables like sex of household head and accessibility to credit were not significant in poverty reduction at 5% level of significance.The government and policy makers are advised to encourage the young people to work early in young age to have better financial welfare, limit household size to avoid having decreased income by reducing on the dependency burden, undertaking higher education levels and training to increase their income there by eradicating poverty in Uganda.