Both sexes share in agricultural production, while weaving, woodworking, making cordage, clothing manufacture, and toolmaking are male activities. Women are responsible for cooking, collecting wild foods, and manufacturing nets and fans. The nuclear family is the basic social and economic unit of Cagaba society. It is the most common household type, and the household functions as a property-owning, cooperative, economic unit. Kinship ties are reckoned bilaterally, but ownership and inheritance mainly follow male lines.
Kinship terminology is of the Hawaiian type.
Cagaba marriage ideals and practices are in conflict, if the Kogi are indicative of the group as a whole. These contradictions appear to be the result of demographic changes resulting from culture contact. Ideally, marriages are prohibited between close relatives, including cousins, and a man of a particular Tuxe should marry a woman of a particular Dake. Further, Cagaba ideals stress fidelity and prohibit divorce. In reality, however, there is a shortage of women, and demographic changes have made it nearly impossible for a man to find a prescribed marriage partner.