The reference social scope of this framework is typically considered to be the extended household, including members who are away from home but send remittances back to the resident homestead. The starting point of the framework are the assets owned, controlled, claimed, or in some other means accessed by the household (column A in Table 1). The livelihoods framework recognises five main asset categories, comprising physical capital (sometimes also called produced capital or economic capital); natural capital (land, trees, fish stocks etc); human capital (people, education and health); financial capital (savings, credit); and social capital (kinship networks, associations).