Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts100An average household in rural CHTFigure12.2: HouseholdAnnual Expenditure on Women (asspends about 30% of annual household% oftotal expenditure)expenditure for maintenance of its All CHT30IPs: All32female members with about28% toBawm31meet their food expenditure and onlyChak34Chakma312% formeeting the non-food part. Khyang34Khumi34Amongthe communities, anaverage Lushai32Marma31household spendss around one-thirdMro32(32%) of the annual spending for its Pangkhua29Tanchangya30female members, while anaverage Tripura30Bangalee28Bangalee household spends about 28%for the same. Across the indigenous communities,the Chaks, the Khyangs and the Khumisreportedly spend around 34%of their annual household expenditure for the maintenance ofthe female members. It is to note that although a little variation in spending for thefemalemembers has been noticed, thepattern ofspending across the communitiesis almost similar.Table 12.4: Household Expenditure for females (Food and Non-food)ItemsAll food expenditure (Tk.) 16680 15432 16712 17264.3 17395 19115 12729 16506 18861 10799 17016 15500 18177 17352Expendituree on food onfemales as % of annualexpenditureeAll non-foodexpenditure(Tk.)Expendituree on non-foodon females as % of annualexpenditureeOverall expenditure onfemales (Tk.)Expendituree on females as% of annual expenditureNIndigenouspeoplesBawm33 321540 1683 1477.7 1333.3 926 1078 1299 1175.8 929.8 1039.7 1435.1 1025.4 1435 132526 2918220 17115 18190 18597.6 18321 20193 14028 17682 19790.8 11839 18451 16526 19612 1867632 311786 54ChakChakma35 3326 2034 3149 731KhyangKhumi34 3523 2533 3447 43LushaiMarma33 3224 2132 3115 469MroPangkhua33 3018 2232 2969 50TanchangyahTripura31 3122 1930 30BangaleeAll30 3119 2028 3060 199 1452 3238Recapitulation: Household ExpenditureThe averagee householdannual expenditurein CHT is low. Thehousehold annual expenditure inrural CHTis lower than thatof rural Bangladesh (Tk. 62,283 vs. 73,000) . The share of foodexpendituree is extremely high across the communities. It isabout 90%of totalhousehold expenditure. The annualhousehold expendituree on healthh and education for anaveragehousehold are extremely low with Tk.605 and398 respectively.The share of annual household spending for the maintenance offemale members is disproportionately low (around 30%) i.e.,average female member in CHT household is two-folddiscriminated than their malecounterpart. This is alsoindicative of high extent of intra-household discriminationagainst women.