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Socio-economic Implications on Rural Female Work Participation Rate


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The inter-mandal and inter-divisional variations existing in Rural Female Workers Participation Rate [RFWPR] among the different revenue divisions, gave scope for specific factors analysis of determining RFWPR in each revenue division of Chittoor district. There are number of studies on the determinants of rural labour force, each study considering its own explanatory variables to determine the rural labour participation rate. The present study, proposes to establish the relationship between rural female work participation rate and some important variables, influencing the female work participation rate. This study aims to identify and analyze the determinants of Rural Female Work Participation Rate (RFWPR) and its socio-economic implications in three revenue divisions of Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. For study of the inter-relationship between the RFWPR and the selected explanatory variables, five alternative equations have been formulated and studied. For study of the inter-mandal variations in RFWPR, multiple regression analysis is carried out. The step-wise regression analysis is also used to study the impact of economic variables and demographic variables. The estimated regression co-efficients and their standard errors, the multiple correlation co-efficients are also studied. The required data for explanatory and explained variables have been collected from the Census of India 1991: Population Census and also from Handbook of Statistics and other unpublished official records of the Chief Planning Officer, Chittoor. The study revealed that, the influence of Socio-economic variables is more than the influence of demographic variables. The effect of the demographic variables in determining the RFWPR is much less. Among the Socio-economic variables, RMWPR shows significant effect in determining the RFWPR followed by cropping intensity (both positive and negative). The new agricultural technology is not adopted by the cultivators in Chittoor division whereas moderate agricultural technology is adopted in Tirupati division.
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E. Lokanadha Reddy
Sri Venkateswara College of Engg. & Tech., Chittoor, (AP), India

Abstract


The inter-mandal and inter-divisional variations existing in Rural Female Workers Participation Rate [RFWPR] among the different revenue divisions, gave scope for specific factors analysis of determining RFWPR in each revenue division of Chittoor district. There are number of studies on the determinants of rural labour force, each study considering its own explanatory variables to determine the rural labour participation rate. The present study, proposes to establish the relationship between rural female work participation rate and some important variables, influencing the female work participation rate. This study aims to identify and analyze the determinants of Rural Female Work Participation Rate (RFWPR) and its socio-economic implications in three revenue divisions of Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. For study of the inter-relationship between the RFWPR and the selected explanatory variables, five alternative equations have been formulated and studied. For study of the inter-mandal variations in RFWPR, multiple regression analysis is carried out. The step-wise regression analysis is also used to study the impact of economic variables and demographic variables. The estimated regression co-efficients and their standard errors, the multiple correlation co-efficients are also studied. The required data for explanatory and explained variables have been collected from the Census of India 1991: Population Census and also from Handbook of Statistics and other unpublished official records of the Chief Planning Officer, Chittoor. The study revealed that, the influence of Socio-economic variables is more than the influence of demographic variables. The effect of the demographic variables in determining the RFWPR is much less. Among the Socio-economic variables, RMWPR shows significant effect in determining the RFWPR followed by cropping intensity (both positive and negative). The new agricultural technology is not adopted by the cultivators in Chittoor division whereas moderate agricultural technology is adopted in Tirupati division.

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