Bellary District, - PRC

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BACKGROUNDThe Multiple Indicator Survey (MICS) is a sample surveyproviding a comprehensive portrait of a defined geographical areaon indicators related to the broad areas of children’s health andsurvival, their education and work, safe motherhood practices,water and sanitation. The major objectives of MICS are to provideinformation on key indicators related to the health and well beingof women and children to evaluate the progress of the district onthese indictors, and to enable policymakers, administrators, andresearchers to assess and address the gaps therein. In 2002, thesurvey was conducted in 10 of the 27 districts of Karnataka, andthe present report summarises the findings from the MICS inBellary district. It is hoped that the survey will be undertaken inthe remaining 17 districts in 2003.Map of KarnatakaAccording to 2001 census, Bellary district had a total population of2.0 million, with a sex ratio of 969 females per 1,000 males..In the Bellary MICS, a field team, consisting of three femaleinterviewers and a supervisor visited 30 Primary Sampling Units(21 villages selected using Probability Proportion to EstimatedPopulation Size method and 9 urban blocks selected using asystematic random sampling method) and collected informationfrom about 40 randomly-selected households from each PSU.Overall, a total of 1,197 households were covered, and informationwas collected on 889 children below age 5 years; 1,932 childrenaged 5- 14; and 1,591 women aged 15- 49 years. Informationabout households was collected from the head of the household orany adult member of the household. Information on childrenbelow age 15 years was collected from the mother or principalcaregiver of the child. Information on women was collecteddirectly from the women themselves. The data for MICS werecollected between 30 June and 30 September, 2002.Sample CoverageHouseholdsChildren below age 5Children age 5-14Women age 15-49Rural Urban Total835362 1,1976322578891,407 525 1,9321,082 509 1,5911
POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD LIVING CONDITIONSData collected on the age and sex distribution of the population and on a variety of socioeconomicindicators provide the household-level context within which information on various indicators related tochild health, education, work as well as maternal health need to be examined.Age-sex distribution of the householdpopulationIn the MICS, all usual residents(irrespective of whether they stayed inthe house at the time of survey) as wellas visitors (who stayed there the nightbefore the survey) were enumerated.MALEPopulation pyramid80+75-7970-7465-6960-64FEMALEThirty-nine per cent of Bellary’spopulation is below age 15 years and 4per cent is age 65 or older. The youngage structure of the population is a resultof continued high fertility in the district,and highlights the momentum forcontinued population growth in thedistrict.55-5950-5445-4940-4435-3930-3425-2920-2415-19Household Composition5-9Ninety per cent of household heads are0-4Hindu, 9 per cent are Muslim, and mostof the reminder are Christians. The percentage of Muslim households is much higher in urban areasthan in rural areas (27 per cent versus 2 per cent). One out of 4 household heads (27 per cent) belongs toa scheduled caste, and 1 out of 5 (21 per cent) belongs to a scheduled tribe. About half of thehouseholds do not belong to either a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe. The scheduled caste andscheduled tribe households are more concentrated in rural than in urban areas (52 per cent in rural and40 per cent in urban areas). On average, the households comprise of 6.1 persons; and 38 per cent of ruralhouseholds have 7 or more persons compared with 30 per cent of urban households.Housing characteristicsNine out of 10 households own a house. House ownership is more common in rural areas than in urbanareas (94 per cent compared with 79 per cent). The housing conditions are better in urban than in ruralareas: 42 per cent of urban households live in pucca houses compared with only 13 per cent of ruralhouseholds. The principal materials used for the construction of roof in rural areas are: grass, leaves,reeds, thatch, raw wood, or bamboo (64 per cent) and stone (14 per cent). In urban areas, the mainmaterials used to construct the roof is grass, leaves, reeds, thatch, raw wood, or bamboo (36 per cent)and concrete (22 per cent). Overall, 48 per cent of the households in the district do not have a separatekitchen in the house, and the rural-urban difference in this regard is not substantial.Eighteen per cent of the households in the district do not have electricity, and this proportion is 19 percent in rural areas.10-142
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APPENDIXStaff involved in MICS-2002
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