ABSTRACT
Assets are classified into two broad categories: productive assets, which include land, livestock, poultry and fisheries, and household durable assets, which include household items, luxury items, tools, transportation etc. Possession of productive assets facilitates certain kinds of livelihood activities such as agricultural production, fishing, animal-and poultry-rearing. Ownership of household durable assets such as bicycles, motorcycles, tools and equipment etc. promotes the mobility as well as the working capability of household members and increases the welfare of households. The household questionnaire collected information on each household’s ownership of seven basic productive assets such as homestead land, agricultural land, fallow land, garden, a pond, livestock and poultry. For household durable assets, data were collected on trees, transport, tools and equipment and other household items. The total value of assets (productive and household durable assets) by economic class is shown in Table 4.1.
