Modeling Poverty Indices Among Crop Farmers Using Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models; A Case of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at; Thomas Mageto; Irene Irungu

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Modeling Poverty Indices Among Crop Farmers Using Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models; A Case of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at, Thomas Mageto, Irene Irungu

Published in International Journal of Data Science and Analysis (Volume 7, Issue 1)

Received: 3 February 2021 Accepted: 10 February 2021 Published: 27 February 2021

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Poverty and its alleviation schemes remain to be of much concern to many countries in the world. In the Sub-Saharan Africa, 41% of the population live below the extreme poverty line and in Kenya, almost 80% of the population are deemed poor. The Kenyan rural sector has a contribution of 40% to this poverty levels despite agriculture being the backbone and the main source of livelihood in the rural areas. It is in this regard that the study evaluates the household characteristics effect on Poverty indices among Crop Farmer Households. The Beta and Dirichlet regression models were used in the analysis in which the Beta regression model gave a better fit to the poverty indices data. The standardized residuals, probability plots, Chi-square test of association and the Breusch Pagan test for heteroscedasticity were used as goodness of fit evaluation tests in which levels of deprivation had a significant effect on the poverty indices among the crop farmers. Data used in the study was secondary data obtained from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Survey Consumption Index in Uasin Gishu County for the period March 2018 to May 2018 in which a total of 489 households were employed in the survey.

Published in	International Journal of Data Science and Analysis (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijdsa.20210701.13
Page(s)	8-12
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Poverty, Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models, Households, Poverty Indices

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Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at; Thomas Mageto; Irene Irungu. Modeling Poverty Indices Among Crop Farmers Using Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models; A Case of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 2021, 7(1), 8-12. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20210701.13

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Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at, Thomas Mageto, Irene Irungu. Modeling Poverty Indices Among Crop Farmers Using Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models; A Case of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Int J Data Sci Anal. 2021;7(1):8-12. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20210701.13

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Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya
Thomas Mageto

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya
Irene Irungu

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, Karatina University, Kenya

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Jackline Chepkorir Lang’at; Thomas Mageto; Irene Irungu. Modeling Poverty Indices Among Crop Farmers Using Beta and Dirichlet Regression Models; A Case of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 2021, 7(1), 8-12. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20210701.13

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