تقدير خط الفقر الذاتي من وجهة نظر الأزواج الأردنيين في محافظة الكرك و محدداته

الملخص EN

The goals of this study are to determine Jordanian spouses’ estimation of subjective poverty line and to compare it with the official absolute poverty line and other absolute poverty lines estimated by some researchers.

It also determines the effect of socio-demographic and economic variables on respondents’ estimation of subjective poverty line.

To achieve these goals, a (questionnaire of face -to- face structured interview is used to collect the data (562 respondents).

The questionnaire includes respondents’ socio-demographic and economic variables and their estimation of subjective poverty line based on the minimum income question which is developed by Goedhart et al.1977.

Descriptive statistics (percentages), and analytical statistics (Pearson correlation and forward stepwise regression) are used to analyze the data set.

The results of descriptive analyses reveal that the respondents’ median estimation of subjective poverty line for the household is JD 200 per month, which is higher than the modified officia؛ absolute poverty line in Jordan for the year 2002, and lower than the modified absolute poverty lines estimated by some researchers for the year 2002.

On the other hand, the stepwise multiple regression analyses reveal that there are statistically significant relationships between household size, respondent’s level of education, household income, subjective social class, place of residence, respondent’s age, house ownership and respondents’ estimation of subjective poverty line.

Finally, the statistical analyses reveal that there are no statistically significant relationships between working status, marital status, and respondents’ estimation of subjective poverty line.