Issue for October - December 2011 - National Institute of Rural ...

464 A. Venkateswara RaoTable 1 : Distribution of the Sample Rural Households According to Average Size ofHousehold & Age of the Head of the HouseholdS.No. Description Sample Rural HouseholdsCultivators Agricultural Other CombinedLabourers Villagers Group1 No. of Sample Households 63 32 25 120(52.50) (26.67) (20.83) (100.00)2 Average Size of the Household 4.90 4.50 4.42 4.763 Age of the Head of the Household (in years)Below 35 15 10 07 32(23.81) (31.25) (28.00) (26.67)36-45 22 09 05 36(34.92) (28.13) (20.00) (30.00)46-55 12 06 09 27(19.05) (18.76) (36.00) (22.50)56 and above 14 07 04 25(22.22) (21.86) (16.00) (20.83)Total 63 32 25 120(100.00) (100.00) (100.00) (100.00)Source : Computed from the primary data.Note : Figures in the parentheses indicate percentages to the total.Below 35 years : ‘Young’ age households36-45 : ‘Below middle’ age46-55 : ‘Above middle’ age56 and above : ‘Old’ ageiv.The pulses varieties and their share intotal pulses consumption are blackgram(38.86 per cent), greengram (29.84 percent), redgram (22.09 per cent), andothers (9.20 per cent).v. Among all the groups, per capitaconsumption expenditure on milk ofagricultural labour is considerably low(` 369.98); and milk consumption is high(` 842.75) for cultivators.vi.The varieties of edible oils and theirpercentages in total edible oilvii.viii.consumption are groundnut (53 percent), ration oil (32.35 per cent), andothers (14 per cent).The share of per capita expenditure onegg & meat is the highest (6.32 per cent)in the case of agricultural labourers; andleast (4.87 per cent) in the case ofcultivators.Fresh water fish is the most preferredvariety of fish in all categories of samplehouseholds. Relatively, very littleamount is spent on prawns.Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 30, No. 4, October - December : 2011