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government servants. The language spoken 1s Tamil. The village also has a population<br />

<strong>of</strong> scheduled caste who live in an adjacent hamlet.<br />

4.3 Demography and socioeconomic features<br />

4.3.1 Method <strong>of</strong> data collecffon<br />

Data were collected by carrying out a census at the beginning <strong>of</strong> the study. A door to<br />

door visit was made and relevant details about the people entered on a predesigned<br />

and pretested pr<strong>of</strong>orma. The demographic features <strong>of</strong> the village was compared wlth<br />

those <strong>of</strong> the state and the natlon. Census, which was taken over a period <strong>of</strong> 3 months,<br />

provided scope for cross sectional data collection at one point <strong>of</strong> time on some issues.<br />

It gave an opportunity to establish rapport with the people, ident~fy key Informants and<br />

prospect~ve members for focus group discussions and in-depth interviews and to make<br />

nonparticipant ObSe~atlonS Although information or1 ~mmun~zation details was<br />

collected during census, only those results pertaining to the demographic, some<br />

educational and socioeconomic aspects are presented here<br />

Data on some important health indicators were wllected from the PHC<br />

4.3.2 Results<br />

ja) Demoaraphy<br />

There were 658 households In the village wlth a total population <strong>of</strong> 3,068. The sex rat10<br />

(number <strong>of</strong> females for every thousand males) was 1,004 against a sex ratio <strong>of</strong> 927 for<br />

India and 1,032 in Tamil Nadu (Anonymous,l994a; Park.1997). A comparison <strong>of</strong> the<br />

age and gender specific distribution <strong>of</strong> the village population with that <strong>of</strong> Tamil Nadu

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