عوامل موثر بر فقر خانوارهاي شاغل روستايي در ايران

The Influences in the Poverty of Rural Working Families in Iran

Enhancing the efficiency of income distribution in the society by the government should be preceded by an inquiry about the targeted groups and this step is, without doubt, of great importance. Unfortunately, neither direct nor indirect attention is given to it. Making use of a simple logit model and relying on the information obtained about the incomes of rural families in the year 2000, the author makes an indirect study of the the factors affecting the poverty of rural working families in the country. The results show that in the case of farmers, the large number of family members as well as low income have a remarkable role in the likeliness of poverty and their significance is greater than that of the social and the geographical variables. In the case of those who work as employees, the illiteracy of the head of the family in addition to low income have as remarkable a role as that of the first group. The probability of poverty among the families whose heads work in the private sector is less than that among the families whose heads work in the cooperative sector. The major variable affecting the poverty of the families whose head is engaged in free jobs is low family income which, in comparison with other groups, has a higher coefficient. In this very group, too, the probability of poverty among those who have productive jobs is higher than that among those who work in the service sector.