Demand for improve solid waste services in Jimma Town, Ethiopia: Evidence from household survey Data
2017
Degent, Abebaw | Maru, Ayenew
The main purpose of this study has been to measure the influence of socioeconomic,demographic and location characteristics on households’ willingness to pay forimprovement of solid waste services. The data for the study was obtained from arandom sample of 200 households in Jimma town. Descriptive analysis of the datareveals that while some households are not willing to pay, others are interested tocontribute either in labour, in cash or both for improvements in solid wastemanagement services in Jimma town. Estimation results of a multinomial logit modelindicate that these choices are influenced by a certain combination of family size,education and age of the household, years of schooling of children or family member,wealth, life-style and location of the dwelling unit. The study concludes with somepolicy implications for improved solid waste management services in Jimma town.
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