The Social Impacts of the High Cost of Living on the Bedouin Family in South Sinai Governorate

The study mainly aimed to identify the social effects of the cost of living on the Bedouin family in the fields of (food, health - education) in addition to identifying the nature of the relationships between some personal, social and economic variables of the respondents and the degree of cost of living on both the food, health and educational status of the family, determining the relative contribution of each of the studied variables in explaining the variation in the degree of the impact of the cost of living on both the food, health, and educational status of the family identifying the most important problems resulting from the high cost of living and proposals to solve them from the respondents' point of view. The study was conducted in the village of Abu Suwayra in the District of Ras Sidr, where it is the largest village in the total Bedouin population, and a regular random sample of heads of households was selected with the number of 302 heads of households and the data was collected through a questionnaire form collected through a personal interview.
The most important results were the following:
More than half of the respondents (56.62%) the level of the impact of the cost of living on the nutritional status of the family is high, and about 46.69% of the level of impact of the cost of living on the health status of the family is average, and that 44.70% the level of impact of the cost of living on their educational status is average.