TY - DATA AU - Raghuprasad,Shailaja TI - Quantitative analysis of poverty, inequality and consumer behavior: the case of the scheduled Castes and Tribes of Karnataka U1 - 339.41(5487) 23 PY - 1986/// CY - Bangalore PB - ISI KW - Consumer behaviour KW - Income in relation to consumption N1 - "This thesis was accepted for the Ph.D. degree by the Indian Statistical Institute, June 1986." Thesis supervisor: Professor N. S. Iyengar; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Background and object of the study -- 2. Review of literature -- 3. Survey of methodology -- 4. Data analysed -- 5. analysis of levels of living and the decomposition of inequality -- 6. Analysis of consumption patterns : the Engel curve approach and the treatment of heteroscaedasticity -- 7. Analysis of consumption patterns: empirical results -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Appendices UR - http://192.168.143.32:8080/jspui/bitstream/10263/3764/1/TH273.pdf ER -