Food and Non-Food Expenditure Differential across Poor and Non-Poor Households in South-East Nigeria [ READ ]
Obisesan Omobolaji Olubukunmi, Salman Kabir Kayode, Rufai Adedoyin Mistura, Daramola Adebukola Yewande, Ogunniyi Adebayo
This paper examined the expenditure differential patterns of food and non-food items in rural and urban South-East Nigeria with emphasis on poor and non-poor households as subdivided by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics’ Household Expenditure Survey Data of 2009/2010 (NBS_HhExp_2009/2010). Descriptive statistics and Econometric models were used to profile the pattern of household expenditure on food and non food items, expenditure patterns of food and non-food items across poverty status and an estimation of the effects of household characteristics on food and non-food expenditures. Household characteristics included age, sex, sector (rural/urban), living status of spouse. Mean per-capita expenditure for the non-poor in the urban area is greater than that of the non-poor in the rural area; mean per-capital expenditure for the non-poor was greater in relation to non food items than food items. The mean per-capita food and non-food expenditures in the urban area was ₦77, 181.27 while the mean per-capita expenditure of households in the rural area was ₦67, 621.61. Disaggregating the data into core/moderately/non-poor, the mean per-capita food and non-food expenditures was ₦21, 866.55k; ₦38, 949.09k and ₦1,100, 88.00k respectively. There is need to up scale the living standards of the rural poor and enhance the productive capacities of the able bodied age groups to reduce the disparity observed as in relation to food and non-food expenditure differences among poor and non-poor households of south-eastern Nigeria.
Obisesan Omobolaji Olubukunmi, Salman Kabir Kayode, Rufai Adedoyin Mistura, Daramola Adebukola Yewande, Ogunniyi Adebayo
This paper examined the expenditure differential patterns of food and non-food items in rural and urban South-East Nigeria with emphasis on poor and non-poor households as subdivided by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics’ Household Expenditure Survey Data of 2009/2010 (NBS_HhExp_2009/2010). Descriptive statistics and Econometric models were used to profile the pattern of household expenditure on food and non food items, expenditure patterns of food and non-food items across poverty status and an estimation of the effects of household characteristics on food and non-food expenditures. Household characteristics included age, sex, sector (rural/urban), living status of spouse. Mean per-capita expenditure for the non-poor in the urban area is greater than that of the non-poor in the rural area; mean per-capital expenditure for the non-poor was greater in relation to non food items than food items. The mean per-capita food and non-food expenditures in the urban area was ₦77, 181.27 while the mean per-capita expenditure of households in the rural area was ₦67, 621.61. Disaggregating the data into core/moderately/non-poor, the mean per-capita food and non-food expenditures was ₦21, 866.55k; ₦38, 949.09k and ₦1,100, 88.00k respectively. There is need to up scale the living standards of the rural poor and enhance the productive capacities of the able bodied age groups to reduce the disparity observed as in relation to food and non-food expenditure differences among poor and non-poor households of south-eastern Nigeria.
