A Comparative Analysisof Socio-demographic Profile between Gond and Halba Tribe of Kanker district, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

According to Census 2011, 8.6% of India's total population belongs to Scheduled Tribes (STs)and the majority of tribe populationlive in rural areas, they lives near forests and hills. Mostly tribe depends on minor forest produce and farming. The objective of the research paper is to compare of socio-demographic profile between Gond and Halba tribe of Kanker district, Chhattisgarh. The present research paper was based on primary and secondary data. The sample size of the study was 180 respondents (i.e. 90 Gond respondents and 90 Halba respondents) the sampling was done by using simple random sampling. In thisresearch papermean, percentageand Kuppuswamy's Socio Economic Status Scale (2019)was used to analysis of data. Results show thataverage age of respondents is 45.6 years. Socio-economic status of Gond and Halba tribe belong upper lower class and comparatively socio economic status of Halba tribe is better than Gond tribe but score of both tribes is 7.66 i.e., between (5-10) which means both tribe belong to upper lower (IV) socio economic class as per Kuppuswamy'sSocio Economic Status Scale.