PALESTINIAN SOCIETY - Fafo

Meat consumption is not higher in rural than in urban areas, and
consequently seems to be determined by household economic resources
rather than by type of locality. Both weekly household meat
consumption and the household wealth index thus act as measures of
household econornic resources. As could be expected, meatconsumption
increases strongly with the number of adult males in the household.
Household Income
Due to assumed under-reporting of household income, household
wealth ratherthan income, has been chosen as main point of reference
for household economic resources. For measurement of recentchanges
in household econornic resources, wealth is, however, a less
suitable measure due its relative stabil it y over time. The first part of
this section thus uses (self-reported) changes in household income to
chart the development of household econornic resources in the
occupied territories since the Gulf War.
Even though the survey daes not asp ire to record exact levels of
household income, the prevalence of various types of house hold
income has still been recorded. The second partofthis section will thus
deal with various household income types, in particular how different
income types are correlated with the Head of Households's labour
activity and household wealth.
Figure 6.6 Household weekly meat consumption by region and type
of locality
Percent Gaza
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40
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West Bank
Total Ex. camps Total Ex. camps Arab Camps
Jerusalem
D 3Kgor more
D 1-2 Kg
. 1Kg
165