Socio-economic status of rural youth and their leisure time

Abstract

The present investigation was centered to find out education, caste, family type, family size, occupation and annual income of family and utilization of the leisure time of the rural youth. The assessment of Leisure time of rural youth it may be some time difficult, but if the observed by the youth, it is easily availability and their utilization in their own and rural development. Current decade has witnessed rapid technological changes and advancement through science and technology and attained great strides by enabling the country’s head high through defense, food and economic security. Result showed that the education, caste, family type, family size, occupation and annual income of family in which all the parameter shows the value of youth and their correlation between different parameters. In education more than half of the respondents had their educational standard upto Middle or Higher secondary level, maximum number of respondents (44%) belonged to Schedule Caste, maximum number of respondents (98%) are belonged to Joint Family, maximum number of respondent’s family size (84.5%) was Above 5 members, (93%) respondents were dependent on Agriculture and allied occupations and the (47.5%) respondents were found in such families whose annual income was in the category of Rs. 75,001-1,00000.