Abstract: The poverty situation in Africa, especially in Nigeria has triggered researchers across the globe in recent years, and various findings of their efforts were quite revealing. For example, poverty measurement from income and consumption perspective have revealed that there is high incidence, depth and severity of poverty in Nigeria. However, little work has been done on poverty using a subjective poverty measurement approach. The nature of poverty cannot be captured by a single income-based or consumption-based indicator. The poor also has a voice, that is; the way they perceive poverty. Hence this study focused on poverty profile of rural households in Ekiti State, Nigeria: using subjective poverty measurement approach. Three local governments area were sampled for this study and a total of 120 rural households were interviewed with the aid of structured questionnaire, while descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed among others that: majority (82%) of the respondents considered themselves poor, while only 18% were non-poor. The major ways of perceiving poverty in the study area were: inability to feed households, lack of stable job, and lack of dignity. Therefore, Governments and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) should take the perceptions of poverty among the rural households into consideration in their poverty alleviation programmes, and they should sensitize rural dwellers on effective family planning, birth control measures and sanitation.
Keywords: Rural, Households Poverty, Subjective.
Title: Poverty Profile of Rural Household in Ekiti State Nigeria: A Subjective Poverty Measurement Approach
Author: Oginni Oluwaseun Clement
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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