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A total of 1960 families which migrate during the
sugarcane-cutting season were surveyed. They belong to the same 165
villages that were surveyed for the Village Survey. A complete age and gender breakup of all the
members of surveyed families is shown in Table
H 1. Gender ratio We find that sex ratios in the survey sample are
the lowest compared to Maharashtra and even Ahmednagar, whether in the
younger age group or the overall ratio. The sex ratio of 843 females to 1000 males is even more
biased against women than the ratio in the entire village sample
(906:1000). These ratios are evidence of greater overall backwardness of
this sample than that seen in the villages surveyed as a whole, which
are themselves, as we have already noted, from a relatively backward
part of Maharashtra.
Table
H 2 : Comparative gender ratio
Caste
/ community profile The two major groups in the migrating community are the
Vanjaris and the Marathas which form 37.9% and 26.8% of the sample respectively.
(Table H 3) The Banjaras form 9.9% of this sample. There
are about 20 to 90 families of Bhills, Dhangars, Mahars, Bouddhas, Matangs,
Muslims, Gujars, each forming 1% to less than 5% of the sample.
Another 20 castes/communities form the rest of the 4.5% of the sample.
Table
H 3 : Caste / Community profile
Educational
profile Another parameter of development is again
indicative of the backwardness of this community. Educational
levels are abysmal (Table H4). 92
% of the women have not been to school at all. Only 1.5% i.e.
41/2713 women have completed Std X. and there are only three graduates
among them. Similar figures for men though better than those
for the women are still quite disheartening. 66%
of the men have not been to school. 358 of 2882 or 7.5% of the men
have completed Std X and there are 82, 2.84%
graduate men. Table H 4 : Education
profile
The age wise break up of the men and women who have
completed Std XII and those who have graduated is along expected lines (Table
H5). Half the women who have completed Std. XII are not more than 20
years of age, while 76% of them are less than 30 years indicating that
the numbers of women getting a high school education is increasing. The
table also shows that there are more older men who have completed higher
secondary school than there are women. However, completing education
upto higher secondary stage is still an exception rather than the rule,
even for men. Table
H 5 :
Age
profile of adults, who have completed Higher Secondary / First Degree
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