ACTIVITY PROFILE AND TIME USE PATTERN OF TRIBAL FAMILIES
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1997
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Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University
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Tribals constitute an important segment of thepopulation of India, representing 8 per cent (Census, 1991) of the total population of the country. They live in certain definite areas with different 'dialects, cultural homogenity and unifying social organisation. Tribals work either on their own lands or as agricultural labourers in the fields of others. A careful examination of their activity profile and nature of work participation of the family members in tribal households brings out their roles and responsibilities which have so far been limited to descriptive documentation only. It is here the time utilization patterns help to study the roles performed in various activities with a quantitative dimension. ' ' Therefore, a survey was undertaken to analyse theactivity profile and time utilization pattern of tribal population with a family approach. Following were the objectives of the study: (i) To develop an activity profile of the household members by gender within and outside their home domain. . (ii) To critically analyse the time allocation pattern for selected activities performed daily.
Sample for the study consisted of_72 householdsselected randomly, six from each landholding category Viz., large farmers (>10 acres), medium farmers (5—10 acres), small and marginal farmers (0—5 acres) and landless labourers. Respondents belonged to Hasnapur, Dantanpalli, Luxettipet villages of Utnoor mandal, Adilabad district. The detailed information was coltcted With the help of an interview schedule. Activitiesr'were analysed lconsidering the tribal household members participation within the home, farm and interface domain. . The salient conclusions drawn from the study include- that among all the respondents the adult women and girl children took major share of responsibility in home domain by showing high participation ‘with high frequency. Men belonging to different age groups showed low role participation in home domain when all the 3 domains are compared. More number of the tasks were seen performed by the respondents in the morning hours only. On an average adult females were spending 17.3 days éiH kharif season 'and 11.3 days in rabi season on farm' fiactivities whereas adult males were spending 16.8 days inkharif season and 13.7 days in rabi season 6n the same when compared to other age and sex groups. When time spent was observed both adult men and women were spending 7—8 hours in kharif season and 6-7 hours in rabi season on farm activities. The findings of the study helped to draw comparisions pertaining 'to roles and) time. use pattern among the different gender & age groups.
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