Table 5 Income composition of the sample households by wealth category.
Income sources (%) | Households’ wealth category | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor (N = 173) | Less poor (N = 141) | Better-off (N = 70) | Total (N = 384) | |
Crop | 29.2 | 43.1 | 44.6 | 42 |
Livestock | 18.4 | 28.4 | 40 | 30.5 |
Agriculture subtotal | 47.6 | 71.5 | 84.6 | 72.5 |
Petty trade | 15 | 13.5 | 5.5 | 10.3 |
Remittance | 1.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
Handcraft | 11.5 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 5.0 |
Non-farm subtotal | 28 | 20.8 | 12.4 | 20 |
Environmental gathering | 9.8 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
Daily wage | 14.6 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
Land rent | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Off-farm subtotal | 24.4 | 7.7 | 3.0 | 7.5 |
Total annual Income | 755,400 | 932,650 | 660,500 | 2,348,550 |
Mean | 4366.474 | 6614.539 | 9435.7143 | 6116.0156 |