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74.8% were landless (Table 4.3). Among the land owners, only 4.2% owned more than
5 acres of land. The distribution of the village population according to the type of
houses they live in is given in Table 4.4. A majority of the villagers llved in huts.
je) Health indicators
For the year 1996, the crude birth rate, crude death rate, infant mortality rate and ch~ld
death rate in the village were reported to be 18.6/1,000, 8.7/1,000, 43.4/1,000 and
2.7/1,000 respectively from the local PHC sources. There were no maternal deaths and
no report of infanticide from Kedar.