Table 4.
Livelihoods at the time of the interviews
| East Mosul | West Mosul | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| Current employment status of head of householda | ||||||
| Clerical or office work | 6 | 0.8 | – | – | 6 | 0.5 |
| Manual labor, full time | 70 | 9.3 | 4 | 0.9 | 74 | 6.2 |
| Manual labor, part time | 211 | 28.1 | 10 | 2.2 | 221 | 18.4 |
| Market sales | 131 | 17.4 | – | – | 131 | 10.9 |
| Domestic work | 23 | 3.1 | – | – | 23 | 1.9 |
| Various intermittent casual work | 222 | 29.6 | – | – | 222 | 18.4 |
| No work | 9 | 1.2 | 344 | 76.3 | 353 | 29.4 |
| Retired | 79 | 10.5 | 93 | 20.6 | 172 | 14.3 |
| Persons earning cash during the past 2 monthsb | ||||||
| Wife | 122 | 62.9 | 64 | 66.0 | 186 | 61.2 |
| Husband | 55 | 28.4 | 20 | 20.6 | 75 | 28.0 |
| Son | 15 | 7.7 | 6 | 6.2 | 21 | 7.6 |
| Daughter | – | – | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0.7 |
| Grandmother | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.0 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Grandfather | – | – | 2 | 2.1 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Sibling of household head | 1 | 0.5 | 3 | 3.1 | 4 | 1.3 |
| Households with no cash income | 4684 | 95.3 | 2595 | 96.3 | 7268 | 96.0 |
a Nominal employment status even if not currently being paid
b11 households in east Mosul had 2 persons earning cash; in west Mosul there were no households with more than 1 person