Pattern and Correlates of Consumption Expenditure in the Rural Areas of Punjab
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Author: Harinder Mohan and Gurinder Jit Singh Bhullar
Author Address: Assistant Professors, Department of Economics, Guru Nanak College, Moga-142001 (Punjab)
Keywords: Consumption expenditure, employment diversification, rural-based enterprises, skill formation.
JEL Codes: E21, J21, L32, J24.
Abstract
The pattern of consumption expenditure in the rural areas of Punjab was evaluated based on the primary data collected from the 400 sample households. The findings revealed that cultivating households spent higher per-capita expenditure on food and non-food items than non-cultivating households in rural Punjab. Step-wise regression analysis found the level of education, size of land holdings, distance from the nearest town, size of household, number of dependents, total farm workers and total non-farm workers as the statistically significant correlates, creating the difference in monthly per capita consumption expenditure among the sample rural households.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 18 No. 4, 2022, 942-950
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/22161
NAAS Score: 5.15 (2022)
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Indexed in Scopus (SJR: 0.18)
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