
 
households  with  the  highest  degrees  of  primary 
school (71.56 percent), working in agriculture (64.65 
percent)  with  unpaid  employment  assisted  workers 
(53.65  percent),  72  percent)  and  those  with  free 
workers  (24.88  percent).  This  suggests  that  poor 
households working in the informal sector are more 
than 70 percent educated with a low formal education 
so that they will have limited skills and skills. They 
mostly  work  on  agricultural  sectors  that  do  not 
require certain skills. 
  Other employment variables that can describe 
the characteristics of poverty in D.I. Yogyakarta is the 
average member of the working household (MPKR). 
Based on the results of logit estimation, obtained the 
estimated value of MPKR coefficient of -0.371064 
with  an  odd  ratio  of  0.6900.  This  means  that  the 
average  number  of  household  members  working 
increased 1, the probability that households will fall 
into  the  poor  category  will  be  0.6900  house-holds 
with fewer household members working. This means 
that the more stout the members of the house-hold are 
working, the less likely the households will be poor. 
The marginal effect of the MPKR variable is -0.0281, 
which means that households will fall into the poor 
category reduced by 2.81 percent if the number of 
working  households  increases  by  one  per-son. 
Increasing the average number of working household 
members  will  lower  the  likelihood  of  households 
being categorised as poor. 
The estimated value of the dummy of residence 
(GEO3)  is  significant at  the  5  percent  significance 
level with an estimated value of 0.404787, while the 
odds ratio of 0.6671. This means that the probability 
of households falling into the category of poor living 
in  the  mainland  area  is  0.6671  times  than  in  non-
mainland areas. These results indicate that non-land 
areas have a higher poverty risk than inland areas. 
The  marginal  effect  of  -0.0307.  This  means  that 
households in the poor category for households in the 
mainland area will be reduced by 3.07 percent com-
pared with households living in non-mainland areas. 
Characteristics of residence based on the location of 
topography turned out to affect poverty. This is be-
cause  the  topography  of  the  non-mainland  area  is 
made  up  of  slopes  and  valleys.  This  region  is  a 
mountainous  region  so  that  transportation  facilities 
are  still  difficult,  facilities  and  infrastructure  that 
support  the  fulfilment  of  household  needs  such  as 
education, health, economy or entertainment is still 
very mini-mal. This result is not much different from 
the results of the study of the determinants of poverty 
in Kenya showing that poverty rates differ in different 
regions (Kabananukye, et al., 2004). 
4  CONCLUSIONS 
The results of estimation and analysis, obtained some 
conclusions as follows. Household size, age of head 
of  household,  occupation  of  head  of  household, 
employment status of head of household, occupation 
of head of household, average of working member of 
household,  highest  certificate  owned  by  head  of 
household,  average  length  of  school  of  household 
member And residential areas are the variables that 
are  able  to  explain  the  characteristics  of  poor 
households  in  Special  Province  of  Yogyakarta  in 
2013.  Variables  that  can  increase  poverty by  2013 
from the order of magnitude of marginal effect are: 
employment  in  the  agricultural  sector,  informal 
employment  status,  and  household  size.  Variables 
that  can  reduce  poverty  by  2013  are  the  area  of 
mainland  residence,  the  average  member  of  the 
working  household,  the  average  length  of  the 
schooling  of  household  members,  the  highest 
certificate held by the head of the household and the 
age  of  the  head  of  the  household.  Increased 
investment  of  human  resources  through  formal 
education can reduce the chances of poor households. 
In  contrast,  agricultural  employment,  informal 
employment  status  will  increase  the  likelihood  of 
poor households. 
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