The study was conducted in the Jalore district of Rajasthan to determine perception respondents towards activities farmer producer organizations on both its beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. Six villages under Ahore block were chosen randomly, a total 120 (60 60 non-beneficiaries) selected randomly for study. Data collected using pre-structured interview schedule through personnel interviews...

As computer technology becomes increasingly prevalent throughout society, concerns have been raised about an emerging "digital divide" between those children who are benefitting and those who are being left behind. This article presents results from new analyses of national survey data describing children's differential access to computers in school and at home, and the varying conditions that ...

For each quartile of income per household or per consumption unit, annual time-series have been estimated from panel surveys, with annual waves of observations from 1974 to 2007: INSEE Households' "Conjoncture" survey from 1974 to 1994, panel “Parc-Auto” Sofres since mid-80's. In these data sources, household behaviour is described through: car ownership (percentage of households with at least ...

Parent demographic characteristics Age b45 years (Ref) 305 (47.1) – – 45+ years 342 (52.9) .15 .07 Sex Female (Ref) 609 (94.1) – Male 38 (5.9) .05 Race/ethnicity Non-Hispanic white (Ref) 479 (74.0) – Non-Hispanic black 131 (20.3) .02 Hispanic or other 37 (5.7) −.00 Education High school or less (Ref) 122 (18.9) – Some college or more 525 (81.1) −.03 Marital status Married (Ref) 554 (85.6) – Oth...

When studying income differences and income distribution the self-employed are often excluded. There are good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as income from being an employee. On the other hand it is a problem to exclude the self-employed if the group is large, the share who are self-employed differs between groups, and the ave...

fish is one of the healthy foods and a rich source of animal protein average household consumption of fish in our soceity is such a low in that one can rarly find it in a family food basket. therefore, this study aimed at analyzing the factors affecting consumption of fish among tabrizian households. to do this, a total of 224 questionnaires was conducted using clustered two- stage sampling met...

We examined differences in health indicators and associated factors across countries according to the proportion of the population who are Muslim. Of 190 UN countries, 48 were classified as Muslim-majority countries (MMC) and 142 as non-MMC. Data on 41 potential determinants of health were obtained from 10 different data sources, and 4 primary outcome measures (male and female life expectancy, ...

BACKGROUND In resource-constrained health systems medical travel is a common alternative to seeking unavailable health services. This paper was motivated by the need to understand better the impact of such travel on households and health systems. METHODS We used primary data from 344 subsidized and 471 non-subsidized inbound medical travellers during June to December 2013 drawn from the North...

A total of 399 crossbred ewes born in 2 yr were maintained either on irrigated or dryland hill pastures. The ewes were sired by North Country Cheviot, Dorset, Finnsheep or Romney rams mated to Suffolk or Columbia-type ewes. The crossbred ewes were mated to Hampshire rams throughout the study and had the opportunity for either 4 or 5 yr of production. Annual feed cost was calculated based upon e...