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activity, the main activity has been distinguished from the subsidiary
activities. The level of involvement in an activity has been decided
mainly by the amount of time relatively devoted to different activities in
a year.
The dependency ratio per 100 work force is 55. Tbey mostly
consist of the pre-school children and the studying population as well as
the older people. Looking at the activity profile by land-holding status,
the dependency ratio among the landless is below that of the landholders.
Looking across sex status, there is no marked variation in the
dependency ratio from the general population.
Those who are engaged in agriculture account for about 63 per
cent of the working population, for about one fourth of whom, it is a
main activity. Looking across the population by land-holding status,
about three fourths of the work force among the land-holders are
engaged in agriculture work. There is no marked difference in the
proportion of those for whom agriculture is the main activity. As for
gender factor, the distribution is almost proportional, with a slight
variation in favour of males. Agriculture as the main activity, clearly
favours the males with about 25 per cent of them involving in it, as
against just about 5 per cent of the females.
About forty-four per cent of the work force have been reported to
be involved in household activity. Looking at the gender factor, the
activity is almost confmed to females alone, involving more than 90 per
cent of the female work force. It also forms as a main activity for about
two thirds of the total female work force, manifesting strict adherence to
the traditional role of women. This activity still remains as an invisible
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