Simply put, it is a score that combines information on the household's and the head of the household's characteristics, asset ownership, social categories (partially disabled or severely ill, fully disabled or severely ill, elderly, orphans) and economic categories (unemployed, women without a breadwinner).
The simplest way to analyze the correlates of self-employment is using a logistic regression analysis of whether the youth is engaged in entrepreneurship against household demographic factors, specific individual characteristics, asset holdings of the household, village-level factors, social capital indicators, and policy-related variables.
The questionnaire included sections on household demographics including education attainment, housing characteristics, asset ownership, participation in groups, and recent loan history.
It gathers a wide range of pre-intervention variables, including applicants' demographic characteristics, household characteristics, assets, employment history, incomes, education, habits, and behaviors.
In particular, as seen in Table 2, we sort firms by ASY in quintiles (in levels and annual variations) and report the average values of five firm characteristics (assets, sales, age, analysts' coverage and institutional ownership) in each quintile of ASY.
At the household level, economy, dwelling characteristics, assets and size, numbers of adults and children, are key factors [ 9, 10].
Demographic characteristics of YHH included were age, gender, number of years as head of household, number of other children and youth in the household, current school enrolment, education achievement, and household characteristics (assets owned, socioeconomic status index).
In each household, one adult (18 years and over) was randomly selected to answer a face-to-face interview and one household member was identified to respond to questions relative to household characteristics, assets and expenditures.
These indicators covered three aspects of material circumstances: household assets and housing characteristics; other assets and school related indicators [ 15].
Adolescent material affluence was measured by twenty one indicators made up of three broad categories; household assets and housing characteristics; other assets; and school related indicators.
One of the primary functions of RTMs in modern power systems is establishing an efficient and effective mechanism for small DER and DR to participate in balancing market transactions, while handling their meteorological or intermittent characteristics, facilitating asset utilization, and stimulating their active responses.
