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Determinants of rationalization of rural household consumption in one of Fayoum Governorate villages

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This study aimed to identify some of the characteristics of the rural women respondents, to define the most important of information sources for respondents in this field, and to identify the most important future needs for them in this area. The research data were obtained through the questionnaire by interviewing a sample of 180 interviewed rural women the main results of the study were: The most important sources from which the respondents know their information in the this field were: Television, mother, parents and relatives, where 76.7%, 69.4%, 52.8%, 62.8% (52.2%) of their knowledge of technical recommendations in the field of rationalization of household consumption was average, compared with only 14.5% of them with a degree of knowledge. The majority of them (82.7%) were either middle (58.8%) or low (23.9%(. The results showed that the variables of recognizing the importance of the recommendations in this field, the education of the interviewee, the type of profession studied, the average of the children's education, and the total productive, purchasing and corrective skills, in addition to the variable size of the household holding together contribute 60.3%. In conclusion, the most important future needs in the field of electricity in: provision Knowledge and awareness of how to meter reading, billing and understanding of its items (40%), while in the gas field has been to learn the most important practices of the rationalization of gas, and to increase awareness of the difference between the devices that are operated with gas and electricity as indicated by 44%, 15% respectively.

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10.21608/ajar.2019.59851

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Rural household, television, Mothers

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EL-Hawary

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Department of Agriculture Economic, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

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Hawary

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Department of Agriculture Economic, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

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hmh08@fayoum.edu.eg

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44

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9044

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2019-06-01

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2019-04-19

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2019-06-01

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248

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268

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1110-1563

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2786-0051

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Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

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Determinants of rationalization of rural household consumption in one of Fayoum Governorate villages

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22 Jan 2023