106 CHAPTER THREE of from five to six persons. Most household members (43.7%) are children of the head, which reflects the age distribution of the population. TABLE 3-17. DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONS BY RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD (NBS 1981) Percentage of Nepal's Total Sample N Estimated Population Relationship Head of household Wife Child Son- or daughter-in-law Grandchild Other relative Not related to head Subtotal Missing relationship 6,815 5,705 17,641 1,989 3,450 3,977 309 39,886 1 39,887 2,474,781 2,052,419 6,191,845 739,405 1,192,288 1,406,168 115,852 14,172,758 324 14,173,082 17.5% 14.5 43.7 5.2 8.4 9.9 0.8 100.0 0.0 Total 100.0 Source: TB3018.2 AN.5 Measurement of wealth and economic well-being in an agrarian, subsistence economy is a difficult problem, yet the survey sought to include various measures that would represent economic status. Tables 3-18 and 3-19 display the distribution of ownership of two modern items, watches and radios, by households and by persons residing in those households. Ownership of these items was thought to represent some successful participation in a monetary economy (e.g., sale of surplus agricultural products) and, hence, some level of improved economic well-being. An estimated 14.6 percent of the households, representing 18.5 percent of persons, reported that someone in the household owned a watch. An estimated 11.0 per- cent of the households, representing 14.5 percent of the persons, reported that someone in the household owns a radio. 3.5 Environmental Distributions In addition to the sociodemographic item collected at a household and a person level in the survey, a variety of other items concerning environmental factors that might be related to blindness were also collected. These data were obtained during site-level interviews with responsible persons and household interviews with household informants. Findings are presented in this section for a selected
