Poverty Dynamics-The Case of CCF Chiayi Branch Office

• Main Authors: Cheng-da Lin, 林正達
• Other Authors: Chao-hsiem Leu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87523399107031015803

碩士 === 南華大學 === 非營利事業管理研究所 === 93 === 　　The researchers used the data of the benefit receivers of children and teenagers that were extracted from the year 1967 to 2000 of the five towns of Mingsyong, Taibao, Puzih, Shueishang, and Jongpu served by Chiayi Branch Office to get the descriptive statistics and the model of the survival analysis of Life-Table Method for analyzing the poverty, the duration of poverty spell, and the possibility of getting rid of poverty of the beneficiaries. Totally 1499 benefit receivers were included in the extracted data, of which 1324 benefit receivers were complete poverty spell and 175 benefit receivers were censor cases. The paper stood on the characteristics of benefit receivers, the duration of benefit received, and the features of the other people in the benefit receiving families to analyze the duration of poverty dynamics of benefit receivers. 　 　　The research revealed that the causes of poverty of these benefit receiving families are " limited occupation", " having injured or sick family members", " lack of family resources", "the change of family members", "imprisoned or to be promulgated the order for being arrested family members", "the illness and death of main economic provider", and "the accidental death of main economic provider". In addition, the two chief causes of poverty were "the death of main economic provider of a family", which is divided into "illness and death" and "accidental death", and "having injured or sick family members". 　 　　Among all the poverty clients, the proportion is 18% of the duration of poverty spell less than two years, 41.4% less than four years, and nearly 66% less than six years. The shortest and longest duration of poverty spell were one month and sixteen years. 　 　　The three main factors which influence the possibility to get rid of poverty in benefit receivers are "the employments of grown children", "the remarriage or cohabitation of the head of a family", and "the increased salary". Other factors that also have influences on the possibility to get rid of poverty in benefit receivers like "the decrease of expenditure", "the decrease of dependent people", and "the increase of shorten income" had lower percentages. 　 　　The restrictions of the research resulted from the incomplete information of the benefit receivers that social workers did not fill out completely, the deficiencies of the data, and the formula that poverty spell was calculated by the period that benefit receivers received the service from the beginning to the end, which might underestimate the poverty spell. In addition, it is uncertain that every client was evaluated with unitary standards due to the elastic quality of deciding who can be benefit receivers, and this uncertainty is one of the restrictions of the research. Also, because the research included only five towns'' data of benefit receivers instead of all in Chiayi city and because the reasons why benefit receivers became poor again have not been deeply discussed in the research, the future researches to focus on these two topics are advised.