Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia

A Muslim is encouraged do charity for the blessings and rewards from Allah subhanahuwata'ala not limited to low-income households. Some social finance institutions have been encouraging their zakat and infaq recipients, along with empowering programmes, to gradually give away a portion of th...

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Main Authors: Arsyianti, Laily Dwi, Kassim, Salina, Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
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Language:English
Published: The National Board of Zakat (Badan Amil Zakat Nasional) Indonesia 2017
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spelling iium-601072017-12-15T01:27:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/ Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia Arsyianti, Laily Dwi Kassim, Salina Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi H Social Sciences (General) HG Finance HG179 Personal finance HG3368 Islamic Banking and Finance A Muslim is encouraged do charity for the blessings and rewards from Allah subhanahuwata'ala not limited to low-income households. Some social finance institutions have been encouraging their zakat and infaq recipients, along with empowering programmes, to gradually give away a portion of their income as charity to the institutions; thus, it would be circulated among them. It is necessary to identify what factors influence them in regularly giving charity. Questionnaires were distributed to 1780 respondents from six areas in the west, middle, and east of Indonesia. By employing logistic regression, results show that determinants affecting regular charity giving of low-income households in Indonesia are employment status, household size, portion of charity per income, expectation of future economy, income, religious activity, and type of financing institution. Many Islamic economic researches have looked at compulsory charity, that is, zakat, and waqf topics, but none of them has covered voluntary monetary charity giving of low-income households in Indonesia. This research tries to fill the gap. The National Board of Zakat (Badan Amil Zakat Nasional) Indonesia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/1/001%20Laily%20IJZ.pdf Arsyianti, Laily Dwi and Kassim, Salina and Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi (2017) Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia. International Journal of Zakat, 2 (1). pp. 21-29. ISSN 2541-1411 E-ISSN 2548-2335 http://www.puskasbaznas.com/ijaz/index.php/journal/article/view/12/9
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
HG Finance
HG179 Personal finance
HG3368 Islamic Banking and Finance
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HG Finance
HG179 Personal finance
HG3368 Islamic Banking and Finance
Arsyianti, Laily Dwi
Kassim, Salina
Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
description A Muslim is encouraged do charity for the blessings and rewards from Allah subhanahuwata'ala not limited to low-income households. Some social finance institutions have been encouraging their zakat and infaq recipients, along with empowering programmes, to gradually give away a portion of their income as charity to the institutions; thus, it would be circulated among them. It is necessary to identify what factors influence them in regularly giving charity. Questionnaires were distributed to 1780 respondents from six areas in the west, middle, and east of Indonesia. By employing logistic regression, results show that determinants affecting regular charity giving of low-income households in Indonesia are employment status, household size, portion of charity per income, expectation of future economy, income, religious activity, and type of financing institution. Many Islamic economic researches have looked at compulsory charity, that is, zakat, and waqf topics, but none of them has covered voluntary monetary charity giving of low-income households in Indonesia. This research tries to fill the gap.
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author Arsyianti, Laily Dwi
Kassim, Salina
Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
author_facet Arsyianti, Laily Dwi
Kassim, Salina
Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
author_sort Arsyianti, Laily Dwi
title Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
title_short Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
title_full Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
title_fullStr Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: A case of low-income households in Indonesia
title_sort socio-demographic and economic factors affecting regular charity-giving: a case of low-income households in indonesia
publisher The National Board of Zakat (Badan Amil Zakat Nasional) Indonesia
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/1/001%20Laily%20IJZ.pdf
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