agricultural processing in bangladesh accounts for a relatively large share of rnf selfemployment income per cent in contrast to the more dominant manufacturing sector which represents per cent of rnf wage employment income chart f the authors identify rurality via the domicile of the household and not the location of the job participation is defined as the receipt of any household income negative or positive by any household member from that incomegenerating activity all the charts are based on the mean of shares which is defined as the income shares calculated for each household and then the mean of the household shares of each type of income is calculated