Original scientific paper

Assessing Poverty and Related Factors in Turkey

Esra Saatci ; Department of Family medicine, Adana, Turkey
Ersin Akpinar ; Department of Family medicine, Adana, Turkey

Abstract

Poverty, a complex, multidimensional, and universal problem, has been conceptualized as income and material deprivation. In this article, we discuss poverty and related factors in Turkey. The absolute poverty line for Turkey was US $4 per capita per day. Turkey was ranked 92nd out of 177 countries with moderate human development in the 2006 Human Development Report. The individual food poverty rate was 1.35% and the non-food poverty rate was 25.6%. The highest poverty rate was among primary school graduates (42.5%; 38.5% for women and 46.8% for men). The rate for this group was higher in urban than in rural areas. Among poor people, 57.2% were married. The highest poverty rate was
among agricultural workers (46.6%) and in Eastern and Southeastern
Anatolia. Factors related to poverty were crowded households, unemployment, immigration, working for a daily wage in the agricultural and construction sector, low educational status, female sex or married status, lacking social insurance, and living in rural areas or in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia.

Keywords

Poverty; Turkey

Hrčak ID:

20927

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/20927

Publication date:

15.10.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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