Skip to main content

Table 4 Livelihoods at the time of the interviews

From: Living in Mosul during the time of ISIS and the military liberation: results from a 40-cluster household survey

 

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

  1. a Nominal employment status even if not currently being paid
  2. b11 households in east Mosul had 2 persons earning cash; in west Mosul there were no households with more than 1 person