TITLE:
Socio-Economic Determinants of Livelihoods: A Case of Female-Headed Households in Kiambu, Kenya
AUTHORS:
Barbara Wanjiku Gitonga, Antony W. Odek
KEYWORDS:
Female-Headed Households, Livelihoods, Income Sources, Savings Plans, Kiambu, Kenya
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.12 No.10,
October
10,
2025
ABSTRACT: Despite the Sustainable Development Goals and Kenya Vision 2030 policies, the households headed by women in Kiambu Town still face some challenges. This study focuses on the socio-economic impacts of income sources and saving plans on female-headed households in Kiambu Town Constituency. A descriptive research design was applied to 370 households with stratified random sampling. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data which was analyzed with SPSS (descriptive statistics, correlations, regression) and thematic coding for qualitative data. From the quantitative data, income sources substantially predicted (χ2 = 125.417, p