Households Per cent Currently Married Women
(15-44 Years)
Per cent
Household headship Age
Male 90.08 15-24 22.61
Female 9.92 25-34 44.80
Nature of the Households   35-44 32.59
Simple 74.05 Education
Complex 25.95 Illiterate 44.87
Religion Below Primary 9.34
Non-Muslim 49.80 Primary 20.36
Muslim 50.20 Middle 9.66
Castes High School 11.09
Gen 69.34 Intermediate 2.50
OBC 14.59 Graduation and Above 2.18
ST/SC 16.06 Occupations
Habitation Type Farmer 1.82
Kaccha 43.05 Agricultural Labours 9.30
Pucca 27.14 Non-Agricultural Laboures 7.01
Mixed 26.56 Business 0.86
Jhopri 3.24 HHBW 15.60
Average Household Size 5.72 Service 4.08
    Marginal Workers 30.30
Sex Ratio 925 Unemployed/ House Wives 31.02
Household Income Mean age Marriage 20.09
Below 2 000 13.93 Mean Age of Pregnancy
2001-5000 36.90 Below 18 25.09
5001-10000 35.40 18-21 48.51
10000-15000 9.08 22-25 18.32
Above 15000 4.69 Above 25 8.08
Data Source: Based on Field Survey by the Researcher, 2010
Table 1: Background Characteristics of Survey Household and Currently Married Women in Rural Malda, West Bengal.