PROFILE OF RURAL UNI-DIMENSIONAL AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POVERTY BY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS: THE CASE FROM KUYU DISTRICT, CENTRAL ETHIOPIA

Understanding the profile of poverty is a pre-condition for effective public action to alleviate poverty in rural area of Ethiopia. The major Objective of this study was to look into profile of Rural Poverty by Household Characteristics in Kuyu District. In order to attain this objective, relevant data were collected through structured interview. The generated data were computed through bivariate analysis of rural Uni-dimensional and Multi-dimensional poverty profile by FGT indices (Incidence, Depth and Severity of poverty) in terms of the socio-economic and demographic characteristic of the household in Kuyu district. The bivariate analysis of rural poverty profile indicated that three FGT poverty measure (Uni-dimensional and Multi-dimensional index) are becoming worse as number of the household members, Female-male ratio, and dependence ratio increases in Kuyu district. Three FGT poverty indexes of Computed Uni-dimensional and Multi-dimensional poverty shows that poverty is decreasing with increasing number of oxen, number of livestock, and size of farm land belongs to the households in Kuyu district. Three FGT poverty index of Uni-dimensional and Multi-dimensional poverty also shows that poverty is more severe among age sub-group of 20 to 29 years, non-formally educated household heads, households without vocational training, households not access to health service, households who take their sick household members to traditional healer, households who do not use fertilizer, and households who do not using improved seed for their farm in Kuyu district. Our final conclusion is that effort should be made to improve these socio-economic and demographic factors to alleviate rural poverty of Kuyu district.