TABLE 4. DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONDENTS ACCORDING TO OCCUPATION OCCUPATION Housewife/ House Manager Businesswoman Retail Store Worker Government Employee Employee of a Private Company/NGO Teacher Others TOTAL 1 TUMAGA (f =28) f % 14 50 2 SAN ROQUE (f =25) f % 15 60 3 STA MARIA (f =17) f % 10 58.8 4 MERCEDES 5 PASONANCA (f =12) f % 4 33.3 (f =7) f % 6 85.7 TOTAL % (f =89) 49 55.1 0 0 0 0 6 0 24 0 2 3 11.8 17.6 2 0 16.7 0 0 0 0 0 10 3 11.2 3.4 1 3.6 3 12 0 0 2 16.7 0 0 6 6.7 0 0 0 0 1 5.9 2 16.7 0 0 3 3.4 0 13 28 0 46.4 100 0 1 25 0 4 100 0 1 17 0 5.9 100 1 1 12 8.3 8.3 100 1 0 7 14.3 0 100 2 16 89 2.2 18 100 Table 4 presented data on the distribution of respondents according to occupation. Majority of the 89 respondents were housewives, or house managers, being charged with managing the household chores and other domestic affairs. This was composed of forty-nine (49) respondents or fifty-five point one percent (55/1%) of the total population. The remaining forty-four point nine percent (44.9%) were distributed into the following occupations, namely, businesswoman (ten [10] or eleven point two percent [11.2%]), government employee ([six] or six point seven percent [6.67%]), retail store worker (three [3} or three point four percent [3.4%]), employee of a private company or an NGO (another three [3} or three point four percent [3.4%]), teacher (two [two] or two point two percent [2.2%]) and other Jobs (sixteen [16] or eighteen percent [18%]). These data reveal that majority of the survivors were not income-earners as full-time house managers, and were dependent on the head of the family in terms of economic survival. 73