Determinan Kemiskinan Rumah Tangga di Provinsi Jambi

This study aims to: (1) to analyze the development of poverty in Jambi Province (2) to analyze the characteristics of poor households in Jambi Province (3) to analyze the factors that affect household poverty in Jambi Province. The results showed that the poverty rate in the Jambi Province in 2012 was increased compared to the year 2011, but generally in the last five years the poverty rate was decreased in Jambi Province. The characteristics of poor households in Jambi Province were the majority were living in rural areas, the majority of heads of poor households were male, the majority of heads of poor households in Jambi Province had educated under junior high school, the majority of heads of poor household were working in agriculture, the majority of poor households had a member more than four people and the majority of poor households in Jambi Province had never obtained business credit.Based on the results of logistic regression analysis found that the variables that affect household poverty in the province of Jambi was the classification of rural/urban variable, the head of household sex variable, the head of household education variable, the head of household occupation variable, household size and business loan assistance variable