International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development
Vol 2, No 2 (2021)

Determinants of Socio Economic and Demographic Characteristics of Poverty in Aceh Province

Heri Wintara (Universitas Syiah Kuala)
Raja Masbar (Universitas Syiah Kuala)
Suriani Suriani (Universitas Syiah Kuala)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 May 2021

Abstract

This study analyzes the effect of socio-economic and demographic characteristics on poverty levels in Aceh Province in the short and long run. Socio-economic characteristics are represented by factors of income per capita, open unemployment rate, and cigarette consumption. While the demographic characteristics are represented by the dependency ratio factor. This study uses panel data from 23 districts/cities in Aceh Province for the 2010-2019 period and the analysis model used is the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) panel model. The results found in this study are the dependency ratio factor, cigarette consumption, and the open unemployment rate have a significant effect in the long run on the percentage of poor people. Meanwhile, the significant factors in the short run are the dependency ratio and the open unemployment rate.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijbesd

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

International Journal of Business, Economics and Social Development (IJBESD) is published 4 (four) times a year and is the flagship journal of the Research Collaboration Community (RCC). It is the aim of IJBESD to present papers which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of Business, ...