تمييز الأسر الفقيرة من غير الفقيرة في المناطق النائية التابعة لإقليم جنوب الأردن

Abstract EN

The aim of this study is to discriminate poor households from non poor households in the remote communities of the southern part of Jordan.

To achieve this goal, a random sample of (203) households (from 660 households in 11 communities) was selected and three personal interview questionnaires were used to collected the data.

Moreover, discriminate analysis was applied to analyze the data.

The results of statistical analyses has revealed that the abject poor households were discriminated by the following variables: unemployment average, household's ownership, expenditure on gifts, sex ratio, agricultural loaned ownership, age, means of mail, video caste ownership.

In addition, the statistical analyses have revealed that the absolute poor households were discriminated by the following variables: number of electric machine in house, percentage of unemployed people, video caste ownership, percentage of hand capelin in the household, and sex ratio