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Occupational Diversification and Livelihood Pattern of the Tribes Living in Attappady Region


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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India
2 II M.A.,Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India
3 Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India
 

India is a country with varied heritage and culture. Due to advancement in socio-economic structure, standard of living, life style and technology, the tribes had an overall change in all the aspects. The traditional occupation of the tribes being hunting had seen a drastic change due to the introduction of forest policies and the restriction towards hunting. The shift in occupation of tribes is based on their locations and other available opportunities. In this aspect, the present research probes to analyse the major determinants of changes in occupation of the tribes living in Attappady region of Kerala state. Purposive Random Sampling method has been adopted to select the sample respondents. The data have been collected from 67 respondents and analysed with multiple regression analysis. The result showed that gender, education and total debt of the family have significant impact on occupational diversification leading to transformation in the livelihood pattern of the select respondents in the study area.

Keywords

Livelihood, Occupational Diversification, Socio-economic Condition and Tribal People.
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Authors

P. Shanmugam
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India
V. Gopala Krishnan
II M.A.,Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India
I. Haripriya
Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


India is a country with varied heritage and culture. Due to advancement in socio-economic structure, standard of living, life style and technology, the tribes had an overall change in all the aspects. The traditional occupation of the tribes being hunting had seen a drastic change due to the introduction of forest policies and the restriction towards hunting. The shift in occupation of tribes is based on their locations and other available opportunities. In this aspect, the present research probes to analyse the major determinants of changes in occupation of the tribes living in Attappady region of Kerala state. Purposive Random Sampling method has been adopted to select the sample respondents. The data have been collected from 67 respondents and analysed with multiple regression analysis. The result showed that gender, education and total debt of the family have significant impact on occupational diversification leading to transformation in the livelihood pattern of the select respondents in the study area.

Keywords


Livelihood, Occupational Diversification, Socio-economic Condition and Tribal People.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh%2F2020%2Fv7i2%2F208585