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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| Language: | English |
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The National Board of Zakat (Badan Amil Zakat Nasional) Indonesia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60107/1/001%20Laily%20IJZ.pdf |
| Summary: | 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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