A study on the Livelihood and Incomepattern of Kanikkar Tribe, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study the different livelihood means, income source, pattern of expenses, and saving habits of the Kanikkar tribe. Kanikkar is one of the 36 tribes listed in the Gazette of India. They live in the Western Ghats of southern Tamil Nadu and commonly known as Kanis. They are a jungle tribe inhabiting the hills of Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli Districts of Tamil Nadu and Trivandrum district of Kerala State.

The area selected for the study is Kanyakumari district; there are 7282 people in all, distributed among eight blocks and four municipalities. Among those Tiruvattar block, which has a significant population of 38% of the total tribal population in seven panchayats, Peechiparai panchayat, with 93% of the Kani population, resides is chosen for this study. The villages of Maangamalai, Mudavanpetrai, and Mothiramalai provided 144 samples for this study.

In order to obtain the analysis effective, the data was analyzed from the primary and secondary data source that was gathered through structured interviews.  Multistage sampling is adopted in different stages, like purpose and random sampling. In the statistical design, descriptive statistics like percentage analysis are used tocompare one quantity against another.