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Different activities - wealth group
Q. What happens when there are different types of activities within one wealth group? For instance, 30-40% might be doing petty trade whereas the other 60-70% are gathering firewood. They make more or less the same amount of income but the activities are different.
A. Typically the major income activities for a wealth group will be similar. So, for instance, 75% of their income will come from a combination of, say, crop and livestock sales, with a remaining 25% coming from other smaller sources. If you are finding consistent and significant variations in the major income sources, (e.g. 60% report that livestock sales provides 75% of their income, whereas the other 40% say crop sales provides most of their income) this means their vulnerability to hazards is different and you should consider subdividing the wealth group. Your team leader should make the final call on this. A more common scenario is to find the smaller sources are not consistent across the wealth group, as suggested in the above question. In this case, do not sub-divide the wealth group, but find a way to clearly report on these differences. If the sources can be grouped under a common category (e.g. basket weaving and brewing could be grouped as ‘self-employment’) this may be your simplest solution. Another alternative would be to group the variable income sources into an ‘other’ category, and explain what this comprises in the text of your report. In doing your analysis you would take an average of the various incomes to use in the Baseline Storage Sheet.
