Abstract

• This study is concerned with factors affecting poverty of households in Kyaukpadaung Township. The objectives of the study are to study the socio-economic situations of household and to analyze the effect of socio-demographic and economic factors on poverty of households in Kyaukpadaung Township. A two-stage random sampling is used to conduct the survey. The first stage was randomly selected four wards from twelve wards of Kyaukpadaung township and at the second stage once data had been collected 300 households were chosen at random from four wards by using simple random sampling method, descriptive analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) and binary logistic regression were applied to analyze primary data. In this township, income level of most of the households is below 400000 Kyats. In Binary logistic regression, the coefficients of age, number of students, loans, occupation and family size were found to be statistically significant. Therefore, the government should focus and support job opportunities to increase the income level and uplift the socio-economic life of households in Kyaukpadaung Township.