Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts92Recapitulation: Household IncomeThere are 35 different types of income sources applicable for ruralhouseholds in CHT. Almost all the CHT households have at least oneagriculture related income source, and some of them earn frommultiple sources related with agriculture. On the whole, theindigenous households are more related with agriculture than theBangalees. The cumulative percentage of indigenous households hasreported income from the agriculture related source is about 136%,while the same for the Bangalees is 96%.The average annual net income of a rural household in the regionirrespective of ethnicities is about Tk. 65,852, while the same inrural Bangladesh (at the current price of January 2008) is about1.28 times higher. Community wise analysis reveals that householdannual net income of the Bangalees in CHT though less than that ofthe rural Bangladesh is comparatively higher than that of averageindigenous community households (Tk. 71,031 vs. Tk. 61,641).Over 50% of the annual net income of all CHT households comesfrom sources related with agriculture; non-farm wages constituteabout 15% closely followed by business related sources (13%). Theshare of agriculture related source in generating net annual incomeof all indigenous households is higher as compared to the Bangalees(63% vs. 49%).On the whole, about 7% of the household annual net income (Tk.4,471) has been contributed by the working and/or income earningwomen members of the household. For Bangalee households, thecontribution of women in generating household income is only 4%while the same among the indigenous communities is about 11%.