Socio-economic Characteristics and Household Savings: An Analysis of the Households' Saving Behaviour in Pakistan

Nadeem A. Burney and Ashfaque H. Khan
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Nadeem A. Burney: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.
Ashfaque H. Khan: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1992, vol. 31, issue 1, 31-48

Abstract: Domestic resource mobilization is one of the key determinants of sustained economic growth. Pakistan's performance with regard to domestic resource mobilization has been poor despite maintaining a respectable economic growth rate. Why is the savings rate so low in Pakistan? In this paper we analyse the household savings behaviour in Pakistan, using micro level data of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) for the year 1984-85. Three different non-linear savings functions attributed to Keynes, Klein, and Landau are estimated separately for the urban and the rural households, using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique. It is found that the average income and saving of an urban household are considerably higher than those of overall Pakistan or a rural household. However, contrary to the general belief, it is found that the propensity to save of the rural households is much higher than that of their urban counterparts. The dependency ratio and the various categories of education are found to have a negative influence on household savings. No systematic relationship is found between savings and the employment status and occupation of the household head. It is found, however, that saving increases with age but tends to decline when the age crosses a certain limit - a finding consistent with the Life Cycle Hypothesis.

Date: 1992
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