Abstract
The
purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes in the consumption expenditure
and the consumption inequality of rural households for the past ten years. We
disaggregate household consumption into different expenditure components such as
food, housing, transportation, education, social fellowship and assess the
contributions of these components to total consumption inequality. In addition,
the total inequality of a population is broken into various subgroups in terms
of the size of cultivated land and farming type and the inequality existing
within subgroup of the population and the inequality existing between them are
assessed.
