| dc.description.abstract | The study aimed at establishing the determinants of household income in Uganda. The objectives were to; establish the relationship between household characteristics and household income quartiles, assess the relationship between social economic factors and household income quartiles, analyze the relationship between participation in non-agricultural enterprises and household income quartiles, and analyze the relationship between access and use of financial services and household income quartiles. The study used the Uganda National Household Survey 2019 (UNHS) that was collected by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The data was analyzed using the ordinal logistic regression model to attain the predictors of household income.
The empirical results showed that; households whose members participated in investment activities were significantly associated with higher odds of belonging to higher income quartiles (OR=1.2, CI 1.1 to 1.4, p=0.000) compared to those that did not. Households that participated in non-farm income diversification activities were significantly associated with increased odds of belonging to higher income quartiles (OR>1) compared to those that did not participate in any. Household heads who had attained at least post-secondary education were significantly associated with an increase in odds (OR = 3.4, CI 2.7 to 4.3) of belonging to higher income quartiles than those with no formal education (p=0.000). Households that depended on international remittances as their main source of income had the highest odds of belonging to higher income quartiles (OR=6.1, CI 3.1 to 12) compared to households that depended on crop farming (p=0.000). They were followed by those that depended on transfers (OR=3.4, CI 1.2 to 9.3), property income (OR= 2.7, CI 1.5 to 4.8), livestock farming (OR=2.2, CI 1.5 to 3.0) and wage employment (OR=2.1, CI 1.8 to 2.3), that were all statistically significant, compared to households that depended on crop farming.
From the study, household participation in investment activities, attainment of at least some primary education by the household head, participation in at least one non-farm income diversification activity and households getting a source of income from; commercial farming, wage employment, non-agricultural enterprises, property income, transfers, livestock farming and remittances were significantly associated with increased odds of being in higher income quartiles. The study therefore recommends the government; to pay more attention to non-farm diversification activities, take deliberate effort to increase financial inclusion among Ugandan households, promote nonagricultural income diversification activities and put deliberate efforts to increase the level of education attainment among Ugandans. | en_US |
