Investigating Household Common Coping Strategies in Northern Rajasthan using Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance (W)

This study was designed to identify common coping strategies in Northern Rajasthan using Kendall's coefficient of concordance approach. The study used primary data from 300 households following multistage random sampling process in the study area. The study found that, the general sequence of coping strategies that all households follow depends on the assets they own and sequence of coping strategies choice agrees each other. Searching for subsidy price, sale of livestock and wage employment are the three topmost coping strategies by overall sampled household in Northern Rajasthan and the Kendall's ‘W’ of 0.856 indicates that there is 85.6 percent agreement between the respondents in the ranking of the coping strategies among households. Poor householdstopmost three coping strategies arewage employment, relay on less preferred foods and limit portion of size at meal. The coefficient of concordance for Poor households rankingis0.879 with 6 degrees of freedom implies that, there is 87.9 percent agreement among rankings of the respondents concerning the coping strategies of poor households choose to live always the same level of welfare. Searching for subsidy price, sale of livestock, purchase food on credit and wage employment were topmost four coping strategiesranked by non-poor households to live always the same level of welfare. Kendall's coefficient of concordance is 0.943 with 6 degrees of freedom fornon-poor households. The value of W shows that 94.3 percent of the sampled non-poor households were in agreement with the order of ranking of the coping strategies.