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the latter being involved in activities which require more capi-
tal. More detailed data on individual household member’s sec-
tor of employment to some extent confirm this hypothesis;
although types of trade activity did not differ markedly bet-

ween the sawah ownership groups (see Appendix 6.14.). Trade
stalls and credit, and other type of small trade requiring some
capital (items 1 and 2) tended to be more common among the
larger owning households, both for household heads and wives
of the household head. On the other hand, market trade and
hawking were more pronounced especially among household
heads in the landless and small farmer categories. Of course,
the scale of trade stalls varies significantly from small capital
enterprises selling a few items to quite large shops offering a
wide range of goods; we need additional data on turnover,
sources of capital and net profits before drawing definite con-
clusions from these distributions.
We now turn to the combination of the three major income
sources farming, farm laboring and non agriculture – by area of
sawah owned (Table 6.20.). As column 6 of the table indicates,
by far the largest income source, accounting for nearly thirty
percent of all households, was the farming non agriculture group,
followed by these two sources combined with farm laboring

and the farmer-farm laboring group. These three groups cov-
ered just under two thirds of all households whereas none of the
single source groups accounted for over ten percent.
Mean sawah owned and operated differed quite consider-
ably among the groups. Both the pure farmer and small, non
wage income categories owned by far the largest mean areas
of sawah land, followed by the farmer non agriculture groups

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