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This chapter comprises two parts. The first part summarizes the frequency distributions of the different variables as recorded by the questionnaire. The text includes only general characteristics of these frequency distributions. A complete description can be found in Appendix 2. Since the number of respondents was 101, the numbers specified in the tables reflect both the number of respondents and their share in percentages. The second part of this chapter specifies the important correlations between the variables found in the sample.
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This variable, together with the formal education level, defined the variable called ability to process information.
The poverty line for a four person family — husband, wife and two children with the older being 6–15 and the head of the household age 35–54 — was $9420 per annum in 1980. The adjustment for the different household structure has been done according to the revised equivalent scale which appears in Chapter 4.
This was classified as mismanagement as defined in Chapter 4, and will be discussed later in this section.
Poverty gap can be defined as the difference between the gross income of the household and adjusted poverty line.
It may also be the case that the individual’s answers reflect a justification or even a realisation of individual’s performance and market conditions respectively.
As was indicated before, this is a study of correlations only and thus, we can only suggest possible causality in this study.
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Gutkind, E. (1986). The Sample Profile. In: Patterns of Economic Behaviour Among the American Poor. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08206-3_6
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