Poverty and Human Development Report 2009 - UNDP in Tanzania

pOVertY aND hUMaN DeVeLOpMeNt repOrt 2009
Figure 57: Changes in Quantity Purchased and Real Prices of Consumer
Durables, 2000/01 and 2007
note: the values on the axes of the chart depict fractional changes, so that -2 to 2 on the horizontal axis
indicates changes from -200% (a reduction of 200%) to an increase of 200%. A similar scale is used on
the vertical axis.
source: hoogeveen et al., 2009 using data from hBs 2007
Productive assets
the hBs collects information on productive assets owned by households. Many of these assets
are of an agricultural nature, but the low level of asset ownership among rural households is
striking (table 41). Within rural areas, only 10% of households own a plough, and 41% of rural
households own livestock other than poultry. Moreover, and contrary to the observed increase
in ownership of consumer durables, data show a slightly smaller percentage of households
owned productive assets in 2007 than in 2000/01. this also holds if the sample is restricted to
households primarily engaged in farming, whose ownership of ploughs, hoes and livestock fell
over the period.
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