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Women’s Participation in Non-Farm Income-Generating Activities in Southern Ethiopia: monograph

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36074/wpinfigaise-monograph.2022
Published
2022-11-01

Abstract

The research title was Rural Women’s participation in Non-farm Income generating activities because Non-farm activities contributed significantly to employment and income in rural areas. The study's general objective was to identify the level of rural women’s participation in Non-Farm income-generating activities. The specific objectives were to identify the current status of women’s participation and factors that affect women’s participation in Non-Farm Income Generating activities. This study took Damot Woyde Woreda, Wolaita Zone, Southern Nations and Nationalities region, Ethiopia. In order to undertake the study, total women households were a population of data to determine a sample; a random sampling method was used to select 96 sample respondents. After selection, a structured interview schedule was used to collect primary data and for further information, Key Informant Interviews and focus group discussion groups were selected for qualitative data. The study employed simple descriptive and inferential statistical analysis and an ordered logit model, and data were analyzed by SPSS 20 version. The dependent variable of the study was rural women’s participation. In addition, there were fifteen independent variables of the study, were age, education, family size, dependency ratio, household income, cooperative membership, livestock holding, land holding, access to market, access to road, training exposure, access to credit, government intervention, risk-taking behaviour and economic motivation. As a result, 61.5 % of the sampled respondents were under the low participation category, 30.2 % were under the medium-level of participation category, and 8.3 % were under the high participation category. In the study, 6 variables were continuous, and the rest 9 variables were categorical. In model analysis, 5 variables were significant, and the other 10 were insignificant. As a model result, the dependency ratio, household income, land holding size, and livestock holding had negative significance, except credit access was significantly positively related to women's participation. So the researcher has recommended that improving access determinant factors and giving attention to policy support for non-farm income-generating activities was very important.

Institutional email ID drsenapathy@wsu.edu.et 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREFACE
FOREWORD
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF TABLES IN APPENDICES
LIST OF FIGURES
ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
1.2. Statement of the Problem
1.3. Objective of the Study
   1.3.1. General Objective
   1.3.2. Specific Objectives
1.4. Research Questions
1.5. Significance of the Study
1.6. Scope and limitation of the study
1.7. Organization of the thesis

2. REVIEW OF PERTINENT LITERATURE
2.1. Definition and Concept
   2.1.1. Definition of Rural
   2.1.2. Definition of Income
   2.1.3. Definition of Income-Generating Activities
   2.1.4. Definition of Non-farm Activities
   2.1.5. Definition of Off-farming Activities
2.2. Theoretical aspects and Determinants
   2.2.1. Age and Participation
   2.2.2. Education
   2.2.3. Family Size and Dependency Ratio
   2.2.4. Land size and livestock holding
   2.2.5. Rural Infrastructure
   2.2.6. Problem of Markets
   2.2.7. Level of Government Intervention
   2.2.8. Rural Credit Service
   2.2.9. Training Exposure
   2.2.10. Membership in Cooperative
   2.2.11. Household Income
   2.2.12. Economic Motivation
   2.2.13. Risk-taking behaviour
2.3. Empirical studies of Rural Non-Farm Enterprises
2.4. Conceptual Framework of the Study

3. METHODOLOGY
3.1. Description of the Study area
   3.1.1. Population of Study area
   3.1.2. Socio-Economic Infrastructure of the area
3.2. Sampling Technique
   3.2.1. Sample Size Determination
   3.2.2. Sampling Design
   3.2.3. Sampling Procedure
3.3. Data Types and Data Sources
3.4. Data Collection Methods/Tools
3.5. Data Analysis
3.6. Model Specification
   3.6.1. Ordered Logit Model
3.7. Hypothesis of the Study and Definition of Variables

4. DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
4.1. Discussion on Dependent Variable 
4.2. Discussion on Independent Variables
   4.2.1. Demographic characteristics
   4.2.2. Discussion on Socio-Economic Factors
   4.2.3. Discussion on Institutional Factors
   4.2.4. Discussion of Psychological Factors
4.3. Determinants of women's participation in Non-farm Income Generating Activities
4.4. Variance Inflation Factor for Continuous Variable
4.5. Contingency Coefficient for Categorical Variables
4.6. Qualitative Analysis from Focus Group Discussion
4.7. Qualitative analysis of Key Informants Interview

5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1. Conclusion
5.2. Recommendations
5.3. Recommendations for further research

6. REFERENCES

7. APPENDICES
7.1. Appendix I: Table Containing Conversion Factor of Total Livestock Unit
7.2. Appendix II: Table Containing Variance Inflation for Co-linearity of Continuous Variables
7.3. Appendix III: Table Containing Contingency Coefficient for Categorical Variables
7.4. Appendix IV: Interview Schedule
7.5. Appendix V: Checklist for Focus Group Discussion
7.6. Appendix VІ: Checklist for Key Informants Interview

8. ETHIOPIA – KEY TECHNICAL TERMS
9. GLOSSARY
10. SUBJECT INDEX 

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Year of publication: 2022
Language: English
Authors: Girma G., Senapathy M.

Translation: No
Translator: -

Type: E-book
Number of pages: 144

Format: PDF (8,3 MB)
ISBN: 979-8-88526-791-5
UDC: -

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