National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A study was carried out in Madurai, a tier-II city of Tamil Nadu with the objective to study the social and educational background of the respondents. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted to select 120 household respondents. Relevant data were collected through personal interview with the help of a pilot-tested interview schedule. An ex-post facto research design was adopted to find out the results. Socio-economic background of the respondents of Madurai City revealed that nearly 77.5 per of the respondents were in the age group of 30-50 and 70 per cent of the respondents were female. Majority (52.5 per cent) of the respondents fell in the income group of Rs. 30,000 -70,000/annum and only 12.5 per cent of the respondents earned more than Rs.70000 per annum. Around 60 per cent of the sampled respondents were living in the nuclear type families. Respondents living in the own house (52.5 per cent) was less than those living in rented houses (47.5 per cent). Majority of the families had a family size of less than 5 members (60 per cent). Educational qualification of the highest numbers of respondents (35 per cent) was in the range up to primary school and none of the respondents were post graduates.
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