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FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS. Reasons for emergence of Female Headed Households *. The broad range of domestic situations typically characterized by the absence of a resident male head, viz, widowhood, divorce, separation and desertion. Migration of male members for long periods
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FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
Reasons for emergence of Female Headed Households * The broad range of domestic situations typically characterized by the absence of a resident male head, viz, widowhood, divorce, separation and desertion. Migration of male members for long periods Loss of economic function by resident males due to severe unemployment, disability, illness and male reluctance to accept jobs seen as status reducing, etc. Households with no mature sons Sons residing in independent nuclear units. * - Source: Mayra Buvinic, Nadia H Yousaefet aI, Women-Headed Households: The Ignored Factor in Development Planning, International Centre for Research on Women, Washington, DC, 1978. (Quoted by Lakshmi Lingam ‘Women-Headed Households : Coping with Caste, Class and Gender Hierarchies’, Economic & Political Weekly: Mar 19, 1994 Selected tables from the above compilation are now released classified by sex of the Head of the Households for the first time in the history of Census.
Proportion of Female Headed Households among Total, SC and ST : India & Madhya Pradesh
Main source of Drinking Water: Madhya Pradesh Percentage share among Female headed households are slightly low compare to Total households.
ASSETS POSSESSED BY HOUSEHOLDS
Availability of Assets & Banking services • Use of Banking Service • Assets • Radio / Transistor • Television • Computer / Laptop (with internet) • Telephone / Mobile Phone • Cycle • Scooter / Motor Cycle / Moped • Car / Jeep / Van • No assets
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