South African Household Expenditure Shares: South African Household Data Pitfalls

The study reported in this article examined the socio-economic determinants of household expenditure patterns in a South African township of Bophelong. The results are based on a household survey using questionnaires. A multiple regression model was used to explain responses in monthly expenditures to socio-economic factors. Household income, household size, the number of people who are employed, employment status, and the educational attainment of the household head were found to exert a strong positive impact on household expenditure. The marital status of the household head was associated with a negative impact on household expenditure. The gender and age of the household head had no impact on the variations in household expenditure. The results of this study contribute to the understanding of township residents by analysing the socio-economic factors associated with household expenditure.

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Impact of women’s share of income on household expenditure in southeast Nigeria

African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics ◽

10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).04 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Patience Opata ◽

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Adaku Ezeibe ◽

Chikwuma Ume ◽

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Keyword(s):

Household Income ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Household Expenditure ◽

Bargaining Model ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Household Data ◽

Household Incomes ◽

The Impact ◽

Gender Specific ◽

Specific Control

The main focus of this paper was to: (i) determine the impact of women’s share of household income on the pattern of expenditure on various categories of basic goods in southeast Nigeria; (ii) explain the pattern of household expenditure using the bargaining model of household behaviour; and (iii) extrapolate the results to the policy implications of gender-specific control of household incomes. We used cross-sectional household data elicited from a sample of 400 households constituting 2 520 members collected from November 2016 to March 2017 and disaggregated by gender. We found that increasing women’s share of incomes raises the budget share for food, children’s clothes, children’s school fees, fuel for household services and other expenditure, although not significantly with the budget shares for alcohol and meals out of the home. Our results suggest that any strategy by policymakers in southeast Nigeria to improve any of the expenditure items should target the empowerment of the gender that will more likely spend their money on the items concerned.

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The Three-dimensional structure of frozen-hydrated nudaurelia capensis β virus

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100127682 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 650-651

Author(s):

N. H. Olson ◽

T. S. Baker ◽

Wu Bo Mu ◽

J. E. Johnson ◽

D. A. Hendry

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Rna Virus ◽

Carbon Film ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Dimensional Structure ◽

Electron Dose ◽

Total Electron ◽

Three Dimensional Structure ◽

Negative Stain ◽

Dimensional Reconstruction

Nudaurelia capensis β virus (NβV) is an RNA virus of the South African Pine Emperor moth, Nudaurelia cytherea capensis (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). The NβV capsid is a T = 4 icosahedron that contains 60T = 240 subunits of the coat protein (Mr = 61,000). A three-dimensional reconstruction of the NβV capsid was previously computed from visions embedded in negative stain suspended over holes in a carbon film. We have re-examined the three-dimensional structure of NβV, using cryo-microscopy to examine the native, unstained structure of the virion and to provide a initial phasing model for high-resolution x-ray crystallographic studiesNβV was purified and prepared for cryo-microscopy as described. Micrographs were recorded ∼1 - 2 μm underfocus at a magnification of 49,000X with a total electron dose of about 1800 e-/nm2.

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New withanolides from a cross of a South African chemotype by chemotype II (Israel) in Withania somnifera

Phytochemistry ◽

10.1016/s0031-9422(00)82110-x ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 1503-1507 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

F Eastwood

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Withania Somnifera

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Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948

10.1017/cbo9781107110243 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John Higginson

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Collective Violence

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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

10.1017/cbo9781107294318 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Joel Cabrita

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

The South

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Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽

10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.24 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 24-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Lourens Schlebusch ◽

Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽

Brenda A. Bosch

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Suicidal Behavior ◽

Health Care Facilities ◽

South African Society ◽

South Africans ◽

The Past ◽

The People ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Black South Africans ◽

To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

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