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and 0.503 respectively), still represents one of the lowland’s
characteristics, i. e. relatively more skewed than in the upland
(For the Gini indices, see Table 6.5.).
The highest degree of landlessness was recorded in Vil-

lage I Wargabinangun (roughly 75 percent), followed by Vil-
lage III Gemarang (65 percent) and Village IV Sukosari (52
percent). By contrast, except in Village V mentioned above,
in each of the upland villages the proportion of landless house-
holds is lower than 25 percent. These variation in landless-
ness, consequently, determine the variations in the difference
between the mean area for all households and the mean area
among landowners only, in each village.
As can be seen in Appendix Table 6.1. in each of the low-
land villages the mean area for all households is about half or
less than that among owners, once again with the exception of
Village II precisely because of relatively low landlessness. Two
extremes can be noted in overall: one is Village I (Wargabi-
nangun) where landlessness is high and the difference between
those two means of area is also high; and the other is Village
VII which is exactly the opposite.
When we look at inter village variations in terms of Gini
indices and of the gaps between the bottom 40 percent the top

10 percent of owner households, several points are worth
noting (Table 6.5.). It appears that, overall, the percentages of
landless households and the Gini indices for all households
are the highest also, whereas in Village VII (Malausma), hav-
ing the lowest proportion of landless, the Gini index for all
households is the lowest.
Looking at owners only, lowland-upland contrasts are not

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