Nearly 44 percent Lakshadweep homes are headed by women
Friday December 28, 2012 10:32:16 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The union
territory of Lakshadweep, which has to its credit the youngest MP
in the Lok Sabha, now has another feather in its cap - it has the
largest number of households headed by women in the country.
The Lakshadweep group of islands, off the western coast of India,
has 43.7 percent of households headed by women. Its MP, Hamdullah
Sayeed, is the youngest MP in the Lok Sabha at 30 years.
Kerala, where some communities follow a matriarchal system, comes
next with 23 percent homes headed by women.
In India, about 27 million households, constituting nearly 11
percent of the total households of the country, are headed by
women.
This finding was revealed in a census of "Female Headed
Households" that was released Friday here by Minister of State for
Home Affairs R.P.N.Singh.
The data was released as part of findings/results of the first
phase of Census 2011 on "House Listing and Housing Census".
Inaugurating the National Data Dissemination Workshop organised by
the Registrar General and Census Commission India, the minister
said that such detailed data would help the Planning Commission
and the government to finalise their schemes.
Singh also pointed out that "significant improvement" has been
achieved in quality of houses but access to drinking water,
electricity and sanitation are areas where more needs to be done.
C. Chandramouli, Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India,
gave the main highlights from Census 2011.
Less than half - 48 percent - of the number of female-headed
households have a toilet within the premises, while just over half
- 59 percent - of such homes have bathing facilities within the
premises.
Other findings of the census are:
There are about 49 lakh single-member female households in the
country with three-fourths of them living in rural areas.
In seven states, namely Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Gujarat, the proportion of
single member female headed household is more than 20 percent.
The proportion of male headed households has declined by 0.6
percent in 2011 compared to 2001 while proportion of female headed
households has increased by 0.5 percent in the same period.
More than 60 percent of female headed households have permanent
houses while in case of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled
Tribes categories the percentage of such homes is at 55.8 percent
and 33.4 percent respectively.
Members in around 18 percent of female headed households have to
trudge more 500 metres in urban areas and one kilometre in rural
areas to access drinking water.
Around 45 percent women-headed families live in one-room premises,
while around 42.5 percent of such houses use cooking gas/natural
gas as a fuel for cooking.
Around 45 percent of these homes have television, in comparison to
47.5 percent in male-headed homes.
Only 3.2 percent of women-headed homes have a four-wheeler - like
a car, jeep or a van, in comparison to 4.8 percent of homes with
vehicles among male-headed homes.
Around 29 percent of women-headed homes do not possess any asset
such as radio/TV/telephone/bicycle/scooter/car. In comparison,
16.5 percent homes among those headed by men have no assets.
The detailed findings on "Female Headed Households" can also be
seen at the website of Registrar General & Census Commissioner,
India at www.censusindia.gov.in.
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