Levels of Living of Rural Households (A Study of Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh)

Abstract

During the last few years, the family budget studies in a developed district like Guntur are very few in Southern States of India in general and in Andhra Pradesh in particular. With an intention to enhance the present database on consumer behaviour, an attempt has been made in this study to collect data on expenditures of various items of consumption, household incomes, and information on different socio-economic and demographic features of the sample agricultural households in the developed mandals of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. The study presents different facets of variation in the standard of living of the farmer households. It covers certain demographic characteristics of the sample households such as average household size and family composition for different occupational groups. It also shows the distribution of annual average per capita consumption expenditure (APCE) of the sample households among different occupational groups by various items of food and non-food groups, and their comparison with those for all sample rural households. It is hoped that this study may prove useful as a contribution to regional demand studies; and the data are collected from the developed regions of a developed district.