Impact Assessment of the District Poverty Initiative Project Rajasthan

Chapter 3
Household Level Changes:
A Comparison with Base Line
This chapter looks at the changing profile of households in baseline villages and also present
non-base line village households. It attempts to compare changes that might have taken place
since the base line survey due to intervention of DPIP in the selected districts. We do expect
the family size to reduce, family income has improved, income from various activities like
salaried jobs, animal husbandry and other sources of income. There have been direct and
indirect influences of DPIP interventions within a village. For instance, creation of
infrastructure might have impacted the poverty situation of the households positively; creation
of social infrastructure might have led to better quality of life, irrigation potential might have
improved, consumption expenditure might have gone up. It is also expected that social capital
of the households has increased; there is greater participation in community activities and
democratic institutions. All values discussed in this chapter are constant 1999-2000 prices.
This discussion relates to APL and BPL households that includes CIG members. It may be
mentioned here that identification of BPL household is not fault free. There has been lot of
controversy regarding the BPL survey across states and even in Rajasthan. In the first
instance, basic household features are discussed.
Household Information
In this section we present the basic features of surveyed household, both baseline and nonbaseline
households. We are not presenting information pertaining to non-baseline household
here as the responses are more or in the same direction (however data is presented in
annexure).
Caste
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