45.6 17.4 2.2 44.2 22.9 6.4 0.0 Impacts of the Tsunami on Possessions and Productive Materials
As summarized in Table 16, over half of the surveyed households in Village 2 participate in fishing 58.7 percent. Labor 49.9 percent and farming 47.8 percent, however, contribute to income and food in
almost half of the sampled households in this village. Slightly less than one-third of the sample ranked trading 30.5 percent or aquaculture
28.3 percent as a contribution to household income. Almost one-fifth of
those surveyed ranked raising livestock 19.6 percent as a source of income,
but none lists this as the primary source. Other activities contributing to
income 15.3 percent consist of a variety of non-traditional occupations
including motorcycle taxi, car-for-hire, and roadside maintenance-person in
addition to more common occupations like teacher, policeman, and maker of
fishing traps. Table 17 shows that fishing 47.5
percent is ranked by less than half of the households surveyed in Village 3 and farming 70.5 percent is the most often ranked occupation.
However, fishing was most often ranked first 31.1 percent by over
thirty percent of the sample. More than one-third of the households also
ranked trading 42.6 percent andor labor 37.8 percent as a source of
income with each ranked first by less than thirty percent of the surveyed
households 26.2 and 24.6, respectively. Twice each week, there
is a market in this village that draws local residents selling produce and
merchants from nearby cities Kuraburi and Ranong. This could
account for the relatively larger percentage of households involved in trading. Aquaculture 27.9 percent is practiced by just under one-
third of the households in the sample. Less than one-fifth of the sample ranked raising livestock 16.4 percent, with none listing this as the primary occupation, just as in village 2. The remaining occupations
14.5 percent ranked include tourism, motorcycle taxi, manager of drivers for public transportation and village health worker. This village is not
directly adjacent to the shore which could account for the relatively lower portion
of the sample ranking fishing as an occupation.
Table 16. Percent distribution of Village 2 Occupations by rank.
Activity 1st
2nd 3rd
4th 5th 6th 7th
Total
Fishing 41.3
8.7 4.3
2.2 2.2
- -
58.7 Aquaculture
2.2 13.0
10.9 2.2
- -
- 28.3
Farming 19.6
13.0 13.0
2.2 -
- -
47.8 Livestock
- 2.2
8.7 6.5
- -
2.2 19.6
Trading 17.4
8.7 4.4
- -
- -
30.5 Tourism
- -
- -
- -
- 0.0
Labor 8.7
32.6 4.3
4.3 -
- -
49.9 Taxi
- -
- -
- 2.2
- 2.2
Other1 10.9
2.2 -
- -
- -
13.1 Other2
- -
- -
- -
- 0.0
Total 100.1