View/Open - Sokoine University of Agriculture

Figure 16: Level of worker/consumer ratio in Kilosa District, Tanzania, 2010It is here shown that there is less productive labour when the household‟s head isyoung and that labour access increases up to when the head is around 60. The age ofthe household head can thus reflect on how much production the household candeliver. There will be a decreasing amount of household members after the childrenhave moved out. However, this is not always true where we sometimes observed thatthe head of some households were old, but now had expanded to also include theirgrand children. We did found that the mean age of heads of households were lower inLunenzi than the two others, and by also having a higher number of households, thisequals a significantly higher worker/consumer ratio, 0,8 compared to 0,7 (p = 0,012).7.1.1.2 Education and labourThe quality of labour can be improved by investing in education and training. Asmentioned, the level of education varied between income groups, but not between thevillages. Only one respondent had secondary school education in the study are, whilethe rest had either primary or none at all (Figure 17).174