Profile of construction workers in Kerala

This paper intends to examine the profile of the sample workers in Kerala- both members and non-members. The socio economic status of the people is usually determined by their relative position in various prestige hierarchies like education, income level, size of family, etc. This paper analyses data relating to the profile of the sample respondents. For the purpose of the study, a member means a construction worker who has enrolled to the Kerala Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Fund Board (KBOCWWFB) and a non-member means a worker who works in the construction field but not enrolled to the Board. The statistical technique of Chi-square test was used to analyze the significant difference of various parameters between the members and non-members as well as among different districts.