Low income families in order to detect their budget for nutrition and the most food their consume

ABSTRACT LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN ORDER TO DETECT THEIR BUDGET FOR NUTRITION AND THE MOST FOOD THEIR CONSUME KOCAKAHYA, Ali Haydar Master Thesis Thesis Supervisor: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Melek YAMAN May-2007 This research has done on low income families in order to detect their budget for nutrition and the most food their consume. This research has performed in negöl on four textile fabrics. This work has performed on over 20 ages and married 350 workers by using casual exemplificiation method. Scannig method has used while performing this research. However , recycling didn?t provide in this research exactly and reached 277 survey. Nutrition consumption differences between the families controlled by using chi-square test. In this research the meaningfulness level accepted 0.5. End of the research 1) Low income persons who have participeted this research , 45.5 percent is men, 54.5 percent is women . At the same time the persons are mostly between the ages 40-49 (43.5%). 41.8% of the persons have 300-599 new Turkish Liras income per month , only 17.3% of these persons have 900 new Turkish Liras and over income. Especially, in this families 55.0% of wife and children works so their total income reaches above the minimum wage.41.4% of these minimum waged persons who have participated this survey just spend 21-30% of their total income to monthly nutrient expenses. At the same time, the families spend average 29.3% of their total income to the nutrient. 2) 72.2% of these persons had declared that they skip meals. The mostly skipped meal is lunch.Home made nutritions are mostly 96.0% pickle and 83.7% canned. Boiled and pounded wheat and braised meat is 25.4% so they least prepared at home. 3)The mostly consumed careal meals by families are soup, macaroni, rice, patty and tea bread. 4) At meals and between meals alcohol consumption of the persons is very low. Everyday mostly consumed eats are fruit,sugar,biscuit and nuts. Besides,the persons that they consume eats and drinks in the breakfast are tea, olive, cheese, honey, jam and boiled grape juice.