Abstract:
The main objective of this study is to identify
the drinking water cost that how to affect on the people
living standard. Especially cost of drinking water
dominates a major part of expenses for households in
Pallikuda GN division. Thus, in the year of 2016 data
has been employed for this cross sectional analysis.
Stratified and random sampling technique was used to
get exactly unbiased data for scrutinized in this study.
The regression model were fitted and estimated in this
study. As with the correlation analysis, there is average
positive correlation level which is 0.520 between total cost
for gathering drinking water and income. The P value
0.000 also conform that this is nicely fitted. And also R2 is
0.27 which means that approximately 27% of variance in
expenditure of gathering drinking water is explained by
income. Furthermore, there is high positive correlation
which is 0.820 between total expenditure for gathering
drinking water and family members and correlation is highly
significant at the 0.01 level. The regression also appears
highly strong and it has R2 value that 0.673 explains to
67 percentage of factors which influences between family
member and total expenditure for gathering drinking
water. As further analysis there is low positive correlation
between total expenditure for gathering drinking water
and distance between home and drinking water source.
The study highly insists the need for adapting new and
effective projects for solving drinking water problem
which enhance people’s living standard.
