Effect of Foreign Remittances on Social Festivities in District Kurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Effect of Foreign Remittances on Social Festivities

Authors

  • Arif Hussain Institute of Development Studies (IDS), The University of Agriculture Peshawar-Pakistan
  • Inayatullah Jan Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Agriculture Peshawar

Keywords:

Foreign remittances, social festivities, multiple regression model, District Kurram

Abstract

            This study was carried out to investigate the effects of foreign remittances on social festivities by the beneficiary households in District Kurrum, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. A total of 206 households were selected by using the proportional allocation sampling technique. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The effects of foreign remittances on social festivities were determined by using multiple regression analysis. Results of the regression model show that foreign remittances has a positively significant effect on social festivities as confirmed by the coefficient of 0.739 and p<0.000. ANOVA for regression was also performed to check the overall significance of the model. The results of ANOVA confirmed that the estimated model was highly significant as shown by the F-values greater than the critical value and p<0.001. The study concludes that foreign remittances are very important sources of households’ participation in social festivities.

Author Biography

Arif Hussain, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), The University of Agriculture Peshawar-Pakistan

Mr. Arif Hussain is PhD scholar, at Institute of Development Studies (IDS), The University of Agriculture Peshawar. He is doing PhD in Rural Development. 

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Published

2020-10-29

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2020)

Section

Articles