Indicators Of Energy Access In Rural Areas Of Tanzania: An Application Of Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

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Abstract

Energy access plays a crucial role in enhancing the social-economic development among the household members in any nation. Notwithstanding the role of energy access in improving the livelihood of people, provision of energy access has revealed to be a major problem in rural areas of Tanzania. The increased in problem of energy access in rural areas of Tanzania is due to the absence of a unified set of indicators for measuring its energy access in order to improve the livelihood and standard of living of rural hoseholds. In order to fill this knowledge gap, this paper focused on determining the indicators of energy access in rural areas of Tanzania. The study employed Cross- sectional survey type of the research design to collect data from 384 heads of household from the rural areas of Njombe and Iringa regions in Tanzania.

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