A Research On Poor Household Of Coastal Community In South Sulawesi

Muhammad Idrus Taba et al.

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i1.649

Abstract

This research aimed to describe the characteristics of poor households including; age, education and main occupation and its relationship to the poor households’ income level of coastal communities in South Sulawesi. Descriptive analysis was used in order to find out a general description of poor households characteristics and Chi-Square Analysis to determine the relationship between social characteristics and poor household income. The results showed that the majority of respondents were in productive age (75 percent), had elementary school level of education (42 percent), and mostly work as fishermen (57.88 percent). Characteristics of age, education and main occupation have a significant relationship to family income. The relationship between socioeconomic characteristics with the level of family income was concluded that in the poor coastal community, productive age, education and occupation, were very important to get a better family income in order to maintain future socioeconomic welfare.

Highlights

Commitment to cope with the poverty problem is reflected constitutionally in the Constitution of 1945
This research aimed to describe the characteristics of poor households including; age, education and main occupation and its relationship to the poor household income level of coastal communities in South Sulawesi (Jayaraman, 2016)
2 Research Methodology The population of this research was the whole poor population who live in coastal areas in South Sulawesi with an analysis unit of poor households

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Introduction

Commitment to cope with the poverty problem is reflected constitutionally in the Constitution of 1945. Until 21st century, the level of poverty in Indonesia remains high. In the decade of 1976—1996, the percentage of poor community in Indonesia had experienced a decline from 40.1% to 11.3%. In the following period, during 1996-1998 this number became 24.29% or 49.5 million people. Even in 2014, the poor community did not experience a significant decline. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) released data on the urban poor population in the number of 10.51 million in March 2014. In rural areas, it was decreased by 17.77 million in March 2014. Even the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates the number of poor people in Indonesia reaching 129.6 million or around 66.3%

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