Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill TractsCHAPTER XIIHOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE9312.1 IntroductionThe accompanying chapter presents the household expenditure status of rural CHT and bycommunities. In the process of generating expenditure data, two approaches have beenadministered: (i) collection of information on annual food consumption (physical quantityand prices of relevant items for a representative week), and (ii) collection of information onall items related to non-food expenditure (keeping in mind the possibilities of non-biasedrecall period for each of the items). The quantity of yearly consumption for each of the fooditems has been estimated and monetized using the relevant price information. For non-fooditems, the annual expenditure against each of the items has been collected from each samplehousehold. The total annual household expenditure for each sample household has beencalculated by adding together food and non-food expenditures.12.2 Household Annual ExpenditureThe average household annual expenditure in CHT is low. It is about 85% of national ruralaverage annual household expenditure. Moreover, Box 12.1: Household Annual Expenditure (adjusted): 2008comparison between CHT-Bangalee household CHT (rural): Tk. 62,282Bangladesh (rural): Tk. 73,402and national rural scenario reveals that the earlier Estimated by authors on basis of HIES 2005, (BBS, 2007a)spends about 6 percentage points less (Tk.68,730), while similar comparison between indigenous households and rural Bangladeshshows that the indigenous households spend (Tk. 57,038) about four-fifth of the amountspend by an average rural household of Bangladesh. Across the indigenous communities, thelowest annual expenditure is incurred by the Pangkhuas (Tk. 40,407), and close to them interms of the same is the Lushais (Tk. 44,232). The Chakmas, the Mros and the Tanchangyasare in a slightly well off compared to average indigenous households, and the othercommunities yearly spending is little less than the reported above average (Tk. 57,038) for IPhouseholds.Table 12.1: Household Annual (food and non-food) Expenditure (Tk.)ItemsIndigenouspeoplesBawmChakChakmaKhyangKhumiLushaiMarmaMroPangkhuaTanchangyaTripuraBangaleeAll CHTAll food51196(89.8)48645(89.3)47264(89.3)52827(89.1)50496(92.6)54445(92.6)38792(87.7)50769(90.1)56606(91.7)35784(88.6)54525(89.1)49244(90.3)61186(89.0)55673(89.4)All non-food expenditure5842(10.2)5834(10.7)5689(10.7)6493(10.9)4022(7.4)4354(7.4)5441(12.3)5550(9.9)5100(8.3)4623(11.4)6655(10.9)5283(9.7)7544(11.0)6609(10.6)Overall expenditure 57038(100)54479(100)52953(100)59320(100)54518(100)58799(100)N 1786 54 49 731 47 43 15 469 69 50 60 199 1452 3238Note: Figures in parenthesis denotes percentage44233(100)56319(100)61706(100)40407(100)61180(100)54527(100)68730(100)62282(100)