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Agricultural activities usually
included the crop production of rice,
coffee, pepper, and corn, peanut,
vegetable, and livestock production of
cow, pig, and chicken. On average, a
household had slightly more than five
agricultural activities that yielded close
to Vietnamese Dong (VND) 10 million
by 2007, i.e., each activity yielded an
average of VND 2 million per year.
Over the three-year period, there was
an increase of 0.5 activities and income
Table 1 Levels and changes in income sources by population subgroups
Population
Agricultural activities
Nonagricultural activities
subgroups
Number of
Total income (mil.
Number of
Total income (mil.
activities
VND)
activities
VND)
Level
Absolute
Level
Change
Level
Absolute
Level
Change
2007
change
2007
2007−2010
2007
change
2007
2007−2010
2007−2010
Total
2007−2010
(%)
(%)
5.2
0.5
9.6
9.2
1.0
0.1
17.9
22.1
4.2
0.6
5.5
−0.6
1.1
0.1
13.1
21.6
4.7
0.5
6.9
47.2
1.1
0.1
17.2
-2.4
5.6
0.5
11.4
1.8
1.0
0.1
19.2
29.9
groups
5.4
0.4
9.2
7.6
0.9
0.1
18.7
26.0
Kinh (majority)
4.1
1.4
11.7
15.5
1.4
0.1
13.9
−4.6
Hà Tĩnh
6.3
0.5
5.2
85.4
0.6
0.2
15.5
39
Huế
6.0
−0.6
4.9
−8.9
1.3
0.1
19.7
34
Đắk Lắk
3.7
1.2
16.5
−12.8
1.3
0.1
19.4
3
Head has no
schooling
Head attains
primary school
Middle school
and beyond
Ethnic minority
Thừa
Thiên
Notes: Agricultural activities include crops and livestock production. Nonagricultural activities include all other income-generating activities. Income values refer to price level in April 2008. mil. VND
refers to million Vietnamese Dong.
Source: Author's calculations from Vulnerability Surveys in Vietnam.
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