Factors Influencing Household Expenditure of Rice Farmers in Ketawang Village Gondang District Nganjuk Regency

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the factors that affect the household expenditure of rice farmers. The population in this study amounted to 573 farmers. The number of samples is determined by 10% of the population. The samples obtained in this study were 57 and rounded up to 60. The sample was selected by purposive sampling with criteria: farmers who own and cultivate the land. The data processing and analysis method used these tenuous equation 2 SLS with the thing of SPSS. The results showed that the factors that affect the household expenditure of farmers in Ketawang Village are as follows: 1) Food consumption blocks are influenced by disposable income, the number of household members and education investment. 2) Non-food consumption blocks are affected by disposable income, education investment and wife's education. 3) Production investment blocks are influenced by disposable income, education investment and total household consumption. 4) The education investment block is influenced by disposable income and the number of children in school. 5) The health investment block is influenced by disposable income, the number of household members, the wife's age and the husband's age.