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meaning that where households lived, affected how much land they had access to. Thelevel of education did however not seem to differ.The size of a household can thus in this case be regarded as the main contributor tohuman capital and a source to available labour. The larger the household, the largerwill the supply of labour be. When in addition the productive age of the householdmembers is taken into account, this information becomes valuable. In the study area,mean household size was 5 but households hired labour to work on their land. Thiswas particularly so among higher income groups (p = 0,005). We also found that inLunenzi, they were using significantly more hired labour (42 %) than in Nyali (37 %)and Masugu (18 %) (p = 0,000).7.1.1.1 Worker/consumer ratioThese findings are also reflected in the worker/consumer ratio. Figure 16 shows thatthe consumer/work ratio increases in the study area when the household head areyoung and reach a top when people are between 51-60 years of age.wealth groups and location. We expected that the households with a higher incomewould have more land and education, than lower income households, thus having theopportunities and173