Table 3.6 Community wise Distribution of Sample Households Number of households Community Marginal Small Medium Large Total Syrian Christian 6(20.0) 17(51.5) 11(73.3) 12(100.0) 46(51.1) Nair 4(13.3) 2(6.1) 1(6.7) -- 7(7.8) Ezhava 13(43.3) 14(42.4) 3(20.0) -- 30(33.3) Scheduled caste 6(20.0) -- -- -- 6(6.7) Pentacost 1(3.3) -- -- -- 1(1.1) Total 30(100.0) 33(100.0) 15(100.0) 12(100.0) 90(100.0) Note: Percentages are given in brackets 3.2.2 Households size and age composition Compared to the entire households in Ramankari village, the average size of sample households, which is estimated as 5.48, is relatively higher. Again, unlike the whole village population, female persons outnumber their male counterparts in farmer households and the sex ratio is found to be 1046. More than 16 percent of the sample household members are old people of 60 or more year’s age and 24 percent are children below 15 years old. The dependency load of the concerned population is estimated as 40.2 percent. There are 122 women in the age group 15-49 and the reported live births in the sample households during the reference year stood at 9. The CBR and GFR of the sample households are estimated as 18 and 50.62 respectively. Age wise distribution of the members of sample households is given in table 3.7.
