Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

4.2Basic characteristics of Project affected leasehold farmers’ households

Leasehold farmers’ households are larger; thus they have greater opportunities to make use of family labor. The average family size of affected leasehold farmers (7.1 persons) is higher than the average rural family size in the Project Area (5.9 persons). Less than half of the members of the leasehold farmer households surveyed in 2009 are women (48.3 percent). The average age of the family members is 27.2 years. Leasehold farmers’ families have the same share of children under 16, as compared with average households – 30 percent, and the percentage of pension-age persons¹⁰ is 8 and 10 percent, respectively.