The study covered only street traders who are selling their wares along the public highway either as
peddlers or sedentary sellers in front of shops or in open spaces by the road side. In terms of products
being offered for sale, the proportion of street traders that sell food, drinks, vegetables and fruits are 63.7
percent while those that are involved in other product categories are 36.3 percent as indicated in Table 1.
In terms of the nature of trading, the result showed that more than half of the respondents (59.3 percent)
are peddlers while the remaining 40.7 percent do carry on their trading in as sedentary sellers in semipermanent
stalls/locations