DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD TO TAKE UP DIFFERENT NON-FARM ACTIVITIES IN CAUVERY COMMAND: AN APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 18
Abstract
The study was conducted in the Vishweshwariah channel of Cauvery command area in Karnataka state of India. A total sample of 426 households were involved in diverse non-farm activities. Depending on the nature, the non-farm activities are classified into five different economic categories like agricultural services, trade and commerce, manufacturing and processing units, service and repairs and final category as traditional services. To determine the factors affecting households to take up different non-farm activities, multiple discriminant analysis was used in the study. From the data, six important variables like age of family head, education, number of working adults in the family, land holding, investment on non-farm activity and annual non-farm income have been chosen as predictors for discriminating the groups. For five groups and six variables, four linear discriminant functions are obtained. The study reveals that the first two discriminant functions explain a maximum variability of 85 per cent with an Eigen value of 0.197 and 0.061 respectively. From the standardized discriminant canonical coefficients of the four discriminant functions reveals that the variables such as age, education, land holding and the number of working adults in the family have more discriminating power to classify a household into five groups.
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LAKSHMI NARSIMHAIAH
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