The effect of asset ownership on the poverty in Pidie, Aceh Province, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the effect of asset ownership on poverty in Pidie, Aceh. This research used two stage sampling. First, village elections conducted by purposive sampling, based on the topography of mountainous regions, coastal and lowland. The village Bunien represent the type of lowland areas, Meunasah Gong represents the type of coastal areas and village Peunalom 2 represents the type of mountain areas. Second, samples household selected by stratified sampling that is poor and not poor household. The analysis model using logit models. Household income, education, household size working and employment status household head, spacious houses and agricultural land are determinant of poverty and potentially reduce the level of poverty in the Pidie. While number of children, working in agriculture sector, labourer or landowner status, opportunity to increase the level of poverty. To reduce poverty, government must promote the agricultural sector, because many of the poor are farmers. In the long term, the government must give priority to the education and health sectors. Such as the exemption costs of education for poor students and free health services for the poor. The first section in your paper.