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- ItemThe socio-demographic factors associated with asset poverty of female and male headed households in the Gauteng City Region(2020-12) Nghenavo, Neo; Geyer, H S; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research profiles household poverty in the Gauteng City Region using the asset/wealth index. The main aim is to determine how household poverty varies among female- and male-headed households, and determine the factors associated with poverty among female- and male-headed households. The study adopted a multidimensional approach and used the principal component analysis to create the asset index using the 2016 Community Survey data. The asset index was found to be robust and consistent. The findings show that 38 per cent of the households in the GCR were asset poor in 2016, and that male-headed households in GCR were more likely to be poor than female-headed ones. The index corroborates some other poverty studies that were done in South Africa indicating that black Africans and coloured households are more likely than Asian/Indian and white households to be asset poor. Differentials of poverty by headship and age groups showed that the male-headed households were more asset poor at younger ages, whilst asset poverty for female-headed households was more prevalent among older age groups. Altogether, poor male-headed households tend to be more represented in households that are smaller in size, compared to poor femaleheaded households that are generally larger in size. Single-person households were more prevalent among male-headed households in the GCR and had the highest asset poverty level when considering the household composition as well as intergeneration households. The analysis of asset poverty by housing characteristics revealed that asset poverty was highest among households that resided in informal and traditional dwellings as compared to those that lived in formal dwellings. The spatial pattern of poverty shows that asset poverty is unevenly distributed in the GCR with municipalities in the periphery poorer whilst some moderate levels of asset poverty exist in the metropolitan areas of the GCR. The determinants of poverty in the GCR are population group, age group and the level of education of the household head, the household size, intergeneration and geography type.