Strategies aimed at poverty reduction need to identify factors that are strongly
associated with poverty and amenable to modification by policy. This paper uses
household level data collected in 1994 to examine probable determinants of poverty
status, employing both binomial and polychotomous logit models. The study shows that
poverty status is strongly associated with the level of education, household size and engagement
in agricultural activity. In general, those factors that are closely associated
with overall poverty according to the binomial model are also important in the orderedlogit
model, but they appear to be even more important in tackling extreme poverty.