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Household Poverty Determinants in Kenya: A Demographic and Health Survey Wealth Index Approach
(Amen-Ra Theological Seminary, 2016) Gachanja, P.M.; Kinyanjui, G.K.
This paper shows that the Demographic and Health Survey Wealth Index need to be used with caution in the analysis of household poverty in Kenya. Thus, we depict a case of varied results when the wealth index is directly used with regional comparison, and discover that in both the binary and ordered logistic models, the years of education of household head, their marital status, the size of a given household and the region of residence (province) strongly determine household welfare status. We also observe that these characteristics are even more important in explaining household probability to poorest, and thus, lay emphasis on results obtained while controlling for household region of residence (province) to those that distinguish between rural and urban households