A comparative study of social security and happiness between tribal and nontribal olders in Bolpur subdivision, West Bengal
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i12.014Keywords:
Bolpur, happiness, nontribal, olders, social security, tribalAbstract
Greying of population is an emerging demographic mechanism of global population and India is also not immune to the said mechanism. As olders are physically frail, physiologically prone to morbidity, economically dependent, socially secluded, hence their social security and happiness play the important roles at older ages. The paper tries to understand the interrelation between social security and associated levels of happiness between tribal and nontribal olders of Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal. It is a cross-sectional study spread over 120 samples, comprising 40 tribal and 80 nontribal individuals. Collected data were analyzed through IBM-SPSS and Microsoft excel spreadsheets. The Likert scale and Chi-square techniques were used to represent the happiness towards social security and statistical association between variable respectively. In order to visualize and analyze the data of social security and happiness, different geospatial and statistical techniques were employed. Result shows that there exists a significant association between the range of happiness of income and psychological security with tribal background indicating the chi-square values of 0.008 and 0.000 respectively. The study is important to comprehend the social security status of elderly people in a particular region with variations in ethnicity.
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