Table 3 Employment and assets ownership indicators
Categories/Communities | Metropolitan | Rural | Semi urban | Typically farming | Typically fishing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment | ||||||
Employment | a. Very poor | a. Unemployed; by day farm laborer | a. Beggars | a. Beggars | a. By-day farm laborer | a. Fish and water porters |
b. Poor | b. By day laborers; child labor to supplement family income | b. A laborer; thief; lazy person | b. A farm laborer | b. Mobile tailors, by day construction workers | b.Kitchen assistants | |
c. Middle class | c. Artisans; informal self-employee; formal sector employees | c. Farmer able to harvest up to 5 bags of cocoa annually; mobile goods retailer | c. A farmer able to hire laborers; an artisan; a taxi driver | c. Retailers, artisans, drivers, traders, teachers | c. Mini retail services, artisans, salaried workers | |
d. Rich | d. Retail and wholesale business | d. Farmer able to harvest up to 10 bags of cocoa annually | d. A farmer able to hire laborers; owner of a drug/agro-chemical store | d. Wholesalers, drug store/agro chemical shop owners | d. Contractor involved in wholesale business | |
e. Very rich | e. Commercial trader with agglomeration of stores; medical doctor; building and road contractors; money lender | e. A farmer-able to harvest cocoa up to 40 bags a year; salaried workers | e. Owns and operate a private school | e. Commercial vehicle owner, money lender | e. Owns a boat with employees | |
Assets Ownership | ||||||
Assets Ownership | a. Very poor | a. No assets | a. No assets | a. No assets | a. No assets | a. No assets |
b. Poor | b. Radio | b. Less an acre of land | b. Less than an acre of land for farming | b.1 piece of cloth; 1 ½ acre of land; radio, goats | b. Radio | |
c. Middle class | c. Radio, DVD players, living room furniture, TV | c. Has a mobile Phone | c. 2 acres of land for farming, fridge, stores, TV | c. 3 acres of land for cocoa farming, brick house, TV, radio, fridge | c.½ plot of land; fridge; has a 3 bedroom house; set of furniture | |
d. Rich | d. Has 1 car; Has about 6 taxis working for him | d. A retail shop; 5–6 acres of cocoa farms | d. Radio, mobile phone, TV, audio system for hiring, land (10 acres) | d. Corn mill; commercial vehicles; 4 acres cocoa farm, 4 acres of palm plantation, 3 acres of orange farm | d. Personal boat for fishing | |
e. Very rich | e. Saw mill/flour mill | e. Above 10 acres of cocoa farms | e. Compound houses for hiring, a private school; mobile phone; over 10 acres of land | e. 12 acres of cocoa land, 6 acres for palm plantation; drug store, chain saw for commercial purposes | e. Employed other fishermen working with other boats owned | |