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Turning to the distribution of various income status groups
by sawah ownership class, we can distinguish three contrasting
groups: landless, owner with less than one hectare of sawah land
and the small group of household owning one hectare of above

(Table 6.20.). The landless households, as expected, were con-
centrated in farm laboring activities, mainly in combination with
non agricultural pursuits (rows 3 and 6). A relatively small pro-
portion of landless households (18 percent), almost all from low-
land villages, depended on farm laboring only for family income,
and only a slightly smaller percentage (16 percent) obtained all
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their household income from outside agriculture. The small
and medium group recorded the highest proportion of house-
holds engaged in both farming and farm laboring (rows 2 and
3), with a relatively high proportion in each owning group
also engaged in non agricultural activities (19–23 percent).
A much smaller proportion of households in the large land
owning group were involved in farm laboring (though 20 per-
cent of households even in this group were reported some
farm laboring activity). This group was marked by the high
proportion of pure farmers (33 percent) and also recorde the
highest share of pure non wage earners, most likely to consist
of older household heads leasing out all their land.

The above refer to activities in which households obtained

26 It will be useful at the later stage to identify the household
characteristics of these pure farm laboring families. One might
expect that they mainly consist of households with older, less
mobile household heads. Nevertheless, inter village differences
among pure laboring families suggests that access to farm labor-
ing jobs was also important (see below).

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