Abstract: The purpose of this project was to analyze the household consumption expenditure in Rwanda. The main objective of this study was to measure the level of household consumption expenditure in Rwanda and to show the contribution of each household consumption expenditure component in the total household consumption expenditure.
The government wants to know where people spend much money for some items for them to be able to budget for food security, non-food and housing consumption expenditure. This information is not always available and people keep changing their spending.
The project studied the distribution of the household consumption expenditure data and the mean differences between household consumption expenditure by component, by urban and rural areas, by sex of head of household and by household composition size and household adult equivalent size.
The research found out that the distribution of household consumption expenditure data was not approximately normally distributed, and Kigali city was the province with higher household consumption expenditure mean and the last was southern province. The research also revealed that, in Rwanda, households spent much money in food consumption, followed by non-food and the last was alcohol. The statistical hypothesis tests found out that the household consumption expenditure mean differences between components, urban and rural areas, household headed by male and female, and between household adult equivalent and household composition size were statistically significant at 95% confidence level.
Keywords: Parametric and non-parametric Test, Test of Normality, Household Consumption expenditure, Household size, Adult equivalent household size.
Title: Parametric and Non-Parametric Design Based Tests Analysis of the Level and Differentials of Household Consumption Expenditure in Rwanda (2010-2011)
Author: Roger KAMANA, Dr. Joseph K. Mung’atu , Dr. Marcel Ndengo
International Journal of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-5736 (Online)
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