Determinants of cooking fuel choice among households in Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia

The quality of household energy usage has a link with sustainable development. In order to increase the use of clean energy sources of the household, it is better to understand households’ decisions their fuel consumptions. This paper therefore aims to examine factors that determine households’ cooking fuel choice in rural and semi urban area of Wolaita Zone. This study is conducted based on cross sectional data collected from 205 household by using simple random sampling technique. The data was collected through structured questioner and has been analyzed by both descriptive and econometrics analysis. A multinomial logit (MNL) model was used to estimate determinates of cooking fuel choice. Results show that education, total household income, location, perception, Age of household head, sex of household head and ownership of clean fuel stove are important factors that determined household cooking fuel choices. In order to improve the use of clean fuels by the households, the government should focus on significant variables of this research.