Analysis of Inherent Variability Among Livelihood Security Indices in Tribal Blocks in Madhya Pradesh

This paper is concerned with the analysis of inherent variability among Livelihood Security indices in tribal blocks in Madhya Pradesh on the basis of 250 respondents collected in these blocks. The seven livelihood security indicators have been found taking into consideration the different sub-indicators within each security. The inherent variability has been analyzed using one way classified ANOVA approach and the least significant differences have been computed to judge over different security. It is found that there are three major categories which reveal that habitat, food and social security form stronger security rather than that of educational, occupational and health as well as occupational, health and environmental security having higher value of indices in comparison to present to their counterparts.