Skills and participation of women in the in urban vegetable market: the distribution and characteristics

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International Journal of Development Research

Skills and participation of women in the in urban vegetable market: the distribution and characteristics

Abstract: 

The present paper has been taken up to identify the empowerment and socio-economic characteristics of women vendors related directly or indirectly to the business and also the study for identifying the main confinements of vegetable vending in this study area. The present study was carried out in the north 24 parganas district of West Bengal. It was purposively selected for the present study. The eighteen independent variables selected for the study those are Age, Religion, Marital Status, Category, Source of family income, Family income per month,  Respondent income, Family type, Family size, Number of family member, Number of child, Caste, Education of the respondent, Termination of study, House type,  Family assets, Livestock’s and birds and Cards and one dependent variable is Livelihood Score. Based on the objectives of the study an interview schedule was prepared. The final schedule was used to collect the information from the respondents by personally interviewing the respondents. Secondary data collected through journals, magazines, internet and research reports and the collected data were processed into frequency / Percentage analysis to draw the conclusion of the study.

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