Abstract
The objective of this work was to describe how poverty influences family’s consumption pattern in the Household wealth theory which explains that wealth is a source of well-being and how the increasing rate of unemployment among household due to the deterioration of the job markets has affected family members’ consumption of home products for 202 participants. A systematic sampling method was used in which in every neighbourhood, much effort was made to start with an nth subject and then select every twentieth unit after the first was selected. The questionnaires were administered by directly contacting and handing them to the respondents (self-administered) and the non-literate ones were helped to fill them. It was discovered that, people tend to prefer nuclear family as their income rises and extended family as their income decreases. The nuclear family members have a better consumption habit than extended family members, single parents and single people because they earn more money and have a much smaller family-size. However, single parent tend to significantly use formal health seeking methods than others because they also have smaller families. The extended family consume more home-based goods and therefore have more domestic comfort: they do not only significantly own and rent expensive and quality homes but also have more durable goods.
Highlights
The question we ask is: how has Cameroon’s regressing economy for the past twenty five years affected families in terms of domestic comfort, health seeking activities, leisure activities as well as feeding habits which are some of the objectives of sustainable development? To what extent has the economic crisis affected families and their children’s education? Does the capacity of a family to cope with the crisis depend on family size or a certain family configuration? The objective of this work was to describe how poverty influences family’s well-being matters in the Household wealth theory which explains that wealth is a source of well-being
This paper examines how the increasing rate of unemployment among household due to the deterioration of the job markets has affected family members’ participation in the desired leading values of the city of Douala for 202 participants in term of feeding habit, domestic comfort, health seeking behavior, the education which are some of the Sustainable Development Objectives and to measure the extent to which poverty is the source of conflict at homes
The dependence of eating enough fruits and vegetables on family type is significant Basing on the four aspects which the residents of Douala consider as appropriate feeding habits, we discovered that the nuclear family has a better feeding habit because they significantly eat three to four times per day, consume a variety meal daily, fortnightly and occasionally, take enough fruits and vegetables daily and monthly and a balanced diet daily and monthly
Summary
After a period of sustained growth, which Cameroon experienced up to the middle of the 1980s accomplishing an annual average growth of 7 percent over a ten-year period, the situation deteriorated from 1986 onward and the country has suffered a severe economic and social crisis, (Baye 2004). The World Bank estimated the drop to about 60% in terms of exchange between 1986-1993. This fall in volume reduced the national income three times between 1985-1994. Domestic Product per capital declined by 6.3 percent per year from 1985 to 1993 and this translated into a 6 percent rate of decline in private consumption per capita. It led to urban unemployment and the informal sector of the economy grew rapidly.
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