The Poverty Report for Angola 2020: Expenditure and Revenue Survey (IDR - 2018/2019), particularly on Monetary Poverty, prepared by the National Statistics Institute (INE), points out the composition of the household as determinants of poverty.
According to the study, which says that the incidence of poverty in Angola is 41 percent, the population living in households with a greater number of dependent children "are, in general, poorer".
Households without dependent children are less poor (17 per cent), while households with three or more children represent 48 per cent of the poor.
In households with one child, the report noted, the incidence of poverty is 20.4 percent, while households with two children have an incidence of 28.1 percent.
"The incidence of poverty increases significantly among the resident population the greater the number of members in the household, the poverty increases five times more in households with seven or more members, compared with households with one or two members", reads in the report published by INE.
According to the document, the activity and occupation of the head of the household is also associated with the condition of poverty and poverty is higher among the population living in households whose head is unemployed (43 percent).
Regarding the occupation of the head of the household, the incidence of poverty is higher among those who work for themselves (51 percent) compared to those who work for others, with 27 percent.
The study finds that among salaried heads, those who work in the public and private sector "live considerably less poverty compared to those who work for themselves".
The population whose head of the household works with family members represents 56 percent of the poor, the study highlights.
