Abstract
This study analyses and compares the variation in income for poor people living in urban and rural areas, for the years 1966 to 1976. The aim is to bring out any differences in the persistence of poverty between these two subsamples. The results from the study show lower variation in income for urban poor people than for rural poor people. Urban families that had income levels below the poverty line had low variations in income over the years. The study was limited by the time available to conduct it in, so that only income variation was studied. It was therefore impossible to reach a conclusion about the differential occurrence of poverty and its persistence across generatons for urban and rural families .
Advisor
Galster, George
Department
Urban Studies
Recommended Citation
Aradi, Kanaya, "Initial Persistence of Poverty in Rural versus Urban Areas between 1966 and 1976" (1988). Senior Independent Study Theses Archive. Paper 133.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudyarchive/133
Publication Date
1988
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 1988 Kanaya Aradi