Abstract
In this study, rural poverty in Iran is investigated applying a multidimensional approach, association rules mining technique, and Levine, F and Tukey tests to household data of 2008. The results indicate that poverty in its multi-dimensions is an epidemic problem in rural Iran. The results also exhibit that there are 11 patterns of poverty in the rural areas including four main patterns with 99.62% coverage and seven sub-patterns with nearly 0.38% coverage. In these patterns, housing and household education are the most important dimensions of poverty and income poverty is the least important dimension. Government income support policy to households, in enforcement the law of targeting subsidies, cannot be regarded as pro poor policy but it follows other political aspects.
Highlights
Until the early 1990s, poverty definitions and its measuring methods were largely based on income approach where poverty was recognized as lack of minimum income
36.96% of rural households are faced with health poverty and the quality and depth of health poverty gap index in rural areas is equal to 0.35%
The finding showed that education poverty in perspective headcount ratio, among the various dimensions of poverty in Iranian rural society, is the vastest and with small differences housing and food poverties are located
Summary
Until the early 1990s, poverty definitions and its measuring methods were largely based on income approach where poverty was recognized as lack of minimum income This approach only considers the welfare aspects of human life that can be expressed in terms of revenue [1,2,3,4]. It is possible that in practice a poor be classified as a non-poor based on income approach [5] Focusing on this approach in studying poverty phenomenon and developing strategies and policies to support poor is a big risk [4]. Housing concept is constraint on the shelter as physical location and involves the residential environment, all services and facilities that are necessary for better family life, and relatively right and safe occupation. Education poverty causes to reduction in the individuals’ human capital and so deprives them from suitable position of social opportunities [20,21,22,23] and ascending the training level trepans more reduction in the poverty rate [21,22,23,24,25]
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