Income of Women Traders Around the Coast of Kupang City Beach Attractions Before and During Covid 19

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10.2991/assehr.k.220301.003How to use a DOI?

Keywords

trader; cost; sales; income

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the business and income of women traders on the coast of Kupang City Beach attractions before and during the Covid 19 pandemic. The research method used was qualitative, the data collection techniques were observation and in-depth interviews with informants in the study there were 24 women traders in 2 locations beach tourism objects, namely Lasiana Beach and Warna Beach, with 4 types of businesses namely young coconuts, flat bananas, basho, and salome. The results of data processing and analysis show that the average monthly sales results minus the average monthly costs of these 4 types of businesses, before the pandemic, the average net income of IDR 6.413.750 per month can reach 3.4 times Kupang City Minimum Wage in 2019 amounting to IDR 1.850.000. During the Covid 19 pandemic, their net income of IDR 3.638.750 per month only reached 1.8 times the 2020 Kupang City Minimum Wage of IDR 2.007.500. Even though their income still exceeds the 2020 Kupang City Minimum Wage, their income has fallen to almost half of what it was before the Covid 19 pandemic.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Veronika A. S. M. Flora
AU  - Yudha E. Nugraha
AU  - Christina W. Plaituka
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/04
TI  - Income of Women Traders Around the Coast of Kupang City Beach Attractions Before and During Covid 19
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Social Science 2021 (iCAST-SS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 14
EP  - 18
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220301.003
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220301.003
ID  - Flora2022
ER  -