Many rural households indulge in piecework to supplement their incomes.

Many women (heads of households, rural teachers and physicians) receive plots.

89 per cent of rural households and use kerosene lamps for light.

In rural areas, almost 19 per cent of households are headed by women.

Table 18 Poverty structure of households in rural areas, by sex of head of household

The HIV AIDS pandemic has had other wide ranging effects on households in rural areas.

Women make up 75 of the beneficiaries in 1.2 million rural households served by the programme.

Only a minority of Ethiopians are born in hospitals most of them are born in rural households.

In rural areas, most sanitation investment, usually for latrines or septic tanks, is undertaken by individual households.

In single households or households otherwise characterized by the absence of a male household member, rural women often assume all tasks and responsibilities, which can be an empowering experience for them.

As a result, yields are generally too low to allow the millions of rural households to generate marketable surpluses.

Over 50 of all households in Botswana own cattle, which is currently the largest single source of rural income.

In West Malaysia, 90 of all households earning less than M 100 a month were located in rural areas.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

Despite efforts to diversify, most households in rural areas still depend on land and natural resources for their basic subsistence.

Port Vila recorded a mean household income of VT 102,200 from salaries and wages, compared to VT 19,300 for rural households.

China doubled the efficiency of rural energy consumption between 1983 and 1998 by distributing safer and cleaner stoves to 185 million households.

With EU support worth 18 million, this operation will improve food security for around 860,000 rural households, or more than six million people.

China s entire reform process started with the adoption of the so called rural household contract system, which leases productive land to farm households.

According to UNIFEM data, women whose husbands have become economic migrants head as many as 80 of the households in some rural areas.

By the end of 2003, 41 of the households nationwide had access to rural sanitary utilities, an increase of 10 compared to 1998.

Indeed, by the end of 2007, more than 26.5 million rural households were using household biogas digesters, thereby avoiding CO2 emissions by 44 million tons.

Rural populations are growing because poor farm households choose to have many children, who work as farmhands and serve as social security for their parents.

Breaks in the drinking water supply are faced by 41.6 per cent of households (42.2 per cent in urban and 41.1 per cent in rural areas).

Data from the 2001 demographic and health survey indicate that the percentage of households headed by women is higher among households that report migrant members. That is the case regardless of the sex of the migrants, although in rural areas the percentage is highest (37 per cent) in the case of households reporting only migrant men.

Similarly, two Food Facility projects in Mozambique, worth a total of 2.5 million, are benefiting almost 50,000 farmers and nearly 300,000 rural families by increasing agricultural production, improving conditions for commercializing products, and addressing food security issues that affect rural households.

The extreme poor in Latin America s rural communities live five kilometers or more on average from the nearest paved road almost twice as far as non poor rural households, resulting in difficult and very costly access to markets and needed services.

Though farm collectives have remained the owners of rural land, households may obtain all residuals of their production, which creates the necessary incentive to use land productively.

Attention should be drawn to the correlation, in rural areas, between poverty levels and the receipt or non receipt of remittances, particularly among households headed by women.

The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the Twenty First Century (REN21) estimates that there are tens of millions of rural households served by renewable energy around the globe.

According to last year s census, the country s 247 million households, two thirds of them rural, reported a rise in the literacy rate to 74 , from 65 in 2001.

First, rural households would be encouraged to have fewer children, and to invest more in each child s health and education. Child survival rates would rise, reinforcing lower fertility rates.

Major challenges at present are the ratio of poor households remains high mainly in the rural, upland and ethnic minority areas which are faced with economic and social difficulties.

Ms. Zou Xiaoqiao wanted to know what measures had been taken by the Government since the previous report to improve the condition of rural women, especially those heading households.

Rural households respond to the opportunities and challenges created by increased dependence on the market by diversifying their resource base and by restructuring the division of labour within the household.

Of the Christians, there were 294 households and seven bachelors, while there were 73 Jewish households and eight Samaritan households.

The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the built environment.

Similarly, India has 104 million poor households and 107 million aspirant households.

Individual households or groups of households obtained their water from smaller wells.

It had a population of 23 Muslim households and 23 Christian households.

In 1991 a total of 1,781 households (8.2 ) were single parent households.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

The Committee is concerned about the lack of direct access to safe drinking water in 17.5 per cent of rural households in Serbia and about the poor quality of water in central Serbia.

She recommended that the Government should immediately hold national consultations with women from all walks of life, including women from rural households, indigenous women and medical personnel, to find solutions to that problem.

The percentage of households with women as the head of the households is 14.8 .