Title : A Study on the Socioeconomic Situations of Mingohn Village, Hlegu Township, Yangon Region

Keywords : socioeconomic situations, simple linear regression, correlation

Authors : Thet Min Naung

Description : This research paper concern with the socioeconomic situations of Mingohn village, Hlegu township, Yangon region. The study adopted descriptive research design to collect data from a sample survey.  The 293 sample households were selected with 95% confidence interval and margin of error 5%. Simple random sampling was used in data collection. It was analyzed descriptively using percentage, mean and standard deviation, and also inferentially using regression and Pearson correlation test. The findings of the study revealed sex ratio of the Mingohn village was 87.2% and dependency ratio was 30.5%.Child-woman ratio was 116.16%. According to education level ,53.55% of  sample household members were high school level.  Concerning housing condition, houses of Mingohn village are wooden houses with zinc roofing and brick pillars. The  used of fuel consumption for the households was  electronic with 85.7%.The employment status for the household member were17.2% in causal workers,12.7% were non-government services,7.4% were government staff and 49.4 were dependents.39.2% of the sample households’ annual income were 4,000,001 kyats  to 6,000,000 kyats.  There is a positive linear relationship between annual income and annual expenditure and there is a moderate correlation with statistically significance of sample households.