UNEMPLOYMENT OF RURAL INHABITANTS – MODEL APPROACH ON THE BASE OF OWN RESEARCH

Abstract

The aim of the paper was to identify determinants of unemployment of rural inhabitants in Poland. The research conducted in 2006 was done in 1000 rural household from 24 poviats in the whole country. Analyses of 2084 adult members of researched households was made in order to elaborate a model identifying influence of particular socio-economic variables on probability of unemployment among rural inhabitants. The set of factors which influence on probability of unemployment consists of: inhabited macro-region and a group of poviats, sex, age, position in a family, occupation as well as living in a household with a farm or without a farm.