From fields to factory – women and plantation-wood processing in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Figures & data

Table 1. Survey instruments, content, sampling frame and sample sizes, by respondent group

Respondent group	Survey instrument and content	Sampling frame and size
Mill management	Semi-structured interviews, including employment policies and working conditions, numbers and backgrounds of employees, experience with employing women	Not applicable
Male and female workers in unskilled positions	Structured interviews, including demographic profile, motive for seeking employment, years of employment, current role and satisfaction with that role, income and expenditure (Paklay only), satisfaction with working conditions, future working intentions	Paklay: 33 women (of 39 in the sampling frame); Hin Heup: 62 women (of 102), 31 men (of 75)
Female workers in unskilled positions	Semi-structured interviews, including previous and current farm system, mill policies towards women, distribution of household duties, employment constraints, use of income, livelihood changes due to employment	Paklay: 13 women; Hin Heup: 8 women
Local village representatives	Village focus groups (men and women), including previous and current village livelihoods, drivers of employment, changes in household relations due to employment	Two farming villages close to the Hin Heup factory

Figure 1. Profile of workers employed in unskilled positions in Paklay and Hin Heup

div. = divorced; sec. = secondary; wid. = widowed.

Table 2. Proportions of men and women using machinery at the Hin Heup mill

Role	Total (N $=$ 93)	Women (N $=$ 62)	Percent (%)
Operating machinery (e.g. debarking, peeling, trimming, gluing)	49	25	51
Other labouring work (e.g. stacking veneer, sanding, grading, packing)	44	37	84

Figure 2. Satisfaction of female workers with their working conditions in Paklay (N$=$33, dashed line shows mid-point)