A Study on Expenditure Pattern of Unorganized Women Workers in Selected Slums of Urban Coimbatore
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2013
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Consumption means the final use of
goods and services to satisfy human wants,
needs and desires. It is a process of deriving
utiUty from goods and services. People
belonging to different classes of income
have different structures of consumption.
Economic development not only brings
about significant changes in the socioeconomic
'and cultural life of a habitant
population but it also influences the levels
of living in the long nm. Increasing number
of working women, rise in the per-capita
income in forcible situations of other
dominants, changing lifestyles and
increasing level of prosperity of the
surroundings with lack of saving attitude
and appropriate awareness brought a
significant changes in the expenditure
patterns. Against this background the
present study aims to explore expenditure
pattern of unorganized women workers in
Coimbatore city. Multi-stage sampling
design was adopted for selecting the sample
which was restricted only to urban slums
in Coimbatore. The total sample size is 600
women. The study found that majority of
the women workers spend major portion of their income on food and towards rent. The
women workers spend 10 percent on health.
Most of the women workers in these
groups had saving habit. Consumption
expenditure on non-food items as a
percentage of total expenditure is the
highest for this group. The low wages and
untimely payment too have added to the
financial burden on the women workers.