Socio-Economic Impact of HIV and AIDS in Tamil nadu

households use firewood. Liquified
Petroleum Gas (LPG seems to be the next
popular mode with 29 percent of HIV
and 34 percent of non-HIV households
using it. Kerosene users form a similar
percentage in both HIV and non-HIV
households.
The ownership of assets and other
consumer durables in the household
also indicates that the economic status
of sample households is quite low (Table
3.5). Although a significant number of
households own a house, these houses
could be just huts. In the case of both HIV
and non-HIV households, as compared
to urban areas, in the rural areas higher
percentage of households own houses. A
higher percentage of non-HIV households
have their own houses/flats whether
in rural or urban areas. The percentage
of households owning agricultural
land and livestock is marginally higher
in case of HIV households. Generally,
the percentage of households having
consumer durables like fans, bicycles,
televisions, refrigerators is slightly lower
for HIV households as compared to non-
HIV households since HIV households, as
already seen, belong to a slightly poorer
section than the non-HIV households in
the sample.
Table 3.5
Distribution of sample households by
ownership of assets and other consumer durables
(in Percentages)
Characteristics HIV households Non-HIV households
Rural Urban Total Rural Urban Total
Owning agricultural land 22.9 6.9 15.6 22.3 1.6 12.8
Household having livestock 24.7 3.7 15.2 23.1 2 13.4
Owning house/flat/plot 55.2 31 44.2 85.9 48.6 68.7
Owning consumer durables
Fan 65.9 85 74.6 78 96 86.3
Bicycle 48 52.9 50.2 74 71.1 72.6
Radio/transistor 41.7 61 50.5 66.6 53 60.4
Tape recorder 15.2 41.7 27.3 21.9 45.6 32.8
Television (b/w) 30 35.3 32.4 46.3 36.7 41.9
Television (colour) 13 35.8 23.4 26.5 51 37.7
Refrigerator 3.6 17.1 9.8 4 25.7 14
Telephone/mobile 12.6 41.2 25.6 16 47.2 30.3
Washing machine 2.2 10.2 5.8 0.9 12.6 6.2
Computer 1 4.3 2.4 0.3 3.1 1.6
Two wheelers 13.9 23 18.1 20 33.5 26.2
Car/jeep etc. 1.4 2.1 1.7 1.2 2.9 2
Bullock cart -- -- -- 2.2 -- 1.2
Tractor 1 0.5 0.7 0.5 -- 0.3
Thrasher 0.5 -- 0.2 0.2 -- 0.1
Tube-well 0.5 -- 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3
N (Number of households) 223 187 410 650 553 1,203
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