cutting and collecting wood from forests for sale in market or as fuel or for own consumption
// Unit group · 9624
Water and Firewood Collectors
Water and firewood collectors collect water and firewood and transport them on foot or using hand or animal carts.
9 Elementary Occupations / 96 Refuse Workers and Other Elementary Workers / 962 Other Elementary Workers / All level 4
// Working conditions
// Hand tools
No hand tools in this set.
visiting forests or fields to pick pieces of dried wood from ground and arranging them in heaps
cutting decayed branches and trunks of trees using axes and hand-saws
tying collected wood into small faggots and carrying them or transporting them on a cart to the market for sale or to village or household for use
drawing water from wells, rivers or ponds, etc. for domestic use
collecting water in leather bags, buckets or other containers from taps, rivers, ponds or wells, and delivering the water to work sites, the houses of clients or to own household for drinking, cleaning of drains or storage in tanks.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Firewood collector
- Water collector
Indexed job titles 4
- BhishtiISCO-88 9162
- Carrier, waterISCO-88 9162
- Collector, firewoodISCO-88 9162
- Collector, waterISCO-88 9162