Food Security Policy Project Research Highlights December 2016 # 5

The share of households with migrants in village tracts in the aquaculture cluster was more than double that of households in village tracts in the agriculture cluster (18% versus 8%). However, the share of households with migrants varied relatively little with the primary occupation type of the household, ranging from 15% of households involved in aquaculture, to 18% of those practicing agriculture and 15% of those dependent solely on nonfarm employment. Landless households were slightly less likely to have migrants than those with land (14% of households versus 19%). For the purpose of analysis, households that owned agricultural land were categorized into three groups based on their agricultural landholdings, where tercile 1 contained the third of households owning the least agricultural land, and tercile 3 contained the third holding the most.