Research Paper
Year: 2018 | Month: September | Volume: 5 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 43-51
Analysis of the Female-headed households, Situation in India with Special Reference to Jammu and Kashmir
Tariq Bashir Dar
Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal
ABSTRACT
The existing situation of the female-headed households in India, Jammu and Kashmir and the world is contingent to the number of factors, such as socio-cultural, economic, and private enterprise. Female-headed households are supported by different institutions in Jammu & Kashmir, and social, cultural and economic life has undergone a number of changes during it. A variety of Data foundations mainly include Census of India 2011 and incremented with State Digest of Statistics and additional published work anywhere compulsory. The present article is supported by research data and observation of my research. This study is based on primary and secondary sources and the primary data was collected by using the technique of interview schedule. Sample size of 300 respondents was selected by with the help of simple random sampling method. Female headed households are of the hurtled groups of the Society. From time to time the various factors like the husband's demise or addiction, his disablement, by divorce, being abandoned by emigrant or careless men, make this broad variety of the society more hurtled. As per the reports of census 2011 in India there are about 27 million female headed household which represent nearly 10.9% of all household. In Jammu and Kashmir female headed household constitute 8.2% as per census 2011. As per the results of the factor analysis test which demonstrate that these factors, according to main concern, were of the mainly distressing components and factors on the condition of these females of Jammu and Kashmir Socio-cultural conditions: 39.28%, economic conditions: 26.72% , entrepreneurship conditions: 15.66% and welfare conditions: 08.34%.
Key words: female-headed households; situation; Socio-cultural; entrepreneurship; India Jammu and Kashmir
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