Profile of rural female headed households
Padmanabhan, M.
Journal of Rural Development 9(6): 1,061-1,065
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0970-3357 PMID: 12285788 Document Number: 378087
The author presents a profile of rural households headed by women in India, using data from the 1987-1988 Employment and Unemployment Survey. Comparisons between female-headed and other types of rural households are made in terms of household size, land owned and cultivated, use of hired agricultural labor, and household consumption.
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