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Economic Impact of alcoholism: A Case Study with Special reference to

Aymanam Panjayath

Devika Rajan

B.Ed student (social science)

INTRODUCTION

Alcoholic beverages have been in use throughout the world for millennia. Although only

a minority of consumers is adversely affected, heavy consumption can cause untold misery, such

as the disruption of the family, long tern effects in the children, wife and the burden on the

community as the drinker's working efficiency and ability to support himself and his family

decreases. "Excessive drug is liable to cause profound social disruption particularly to the family,

marital and family tension is virtually inevitable" (Oxford, 1976)'. The wives of heavy drinkers

are likely to become anxious, depressed and socially isolated .

Alcohol

The widely used and abuse drug among youth, causes services and potentially life

threatening problems for this population. Although alcohol is some time referred to as a gate

way drug for youth because its use often precedes the use of other illicit substance, this

terminology is counterproductive. Youth drinks require significant attention, not because of what

its leads to but because of extensive human and economic impact of alcohol use by this

vulnerable population.

Objectives

I To find out the economic impact of alcoholism.


II To find out the consumption pattern of alcoholic consumes.

III To made a comparative study of economic wellbeing of drinkers and

Non drinkers

Scope and Relevance of the Study

In the modern era, the peoples live in a nuclear family setup. There is less possibility and

feelings on sharing and ventilation problems and emotion. So the peoples depend alcohol is a

simple problem solver. So more people including youth are addicted to alcohol. But actually such

an addiction in alcohol create plenty of economic problems to this society and individually. This

consumption of alcohol creates a great flow of money from the pocket of people. So this study

has great relevance and scope in the present era of alcohol addiction.

Method of Data Collection

Data needed for the Research study is collected using the Questionnaire method and

schedule. Mainly data are collected through primary and secondary source of data.

Primary Source

From the person with alcohol addicted and also them family who they impacted them problems

of alcoholism.

Secondary sources

Data from books,journals and internet


CHAPTER II

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

After the data have been collected, researcher shifts centre of attention to their analysis. Analysis

of data involves a number of closely related operations that are performed with the purpose of

summarizing the collected data and organizing these in such a manner that they will yield

answers to the research questions.

This chapter contains analysis and interpretation of the collected data. It is based on the

response given by fifty respondents. Data collected for this purpose were analyzed using

appropriate statistical tests and the results and interpretations are given in this chapter. It deals

with the statistical analysis of the data and the interpretation of the results.

Analysis and interpretation of socio-demographic data

Table No. 4.1

Age wise distribution of respondents

Age Frequency Percentage


15-25 6 12
25-35 13 26
35-45 25 50
45-55 4 8
Above 55 2 4
Total 50 100
Source: primary data
The table exhibits that 50 percent of respondents (25) belongs to the age category of 35-45 and

12 percent of respondents (6) belong to the age group 15-25. The age group (25-35) consists of

26 percent of the respondents (13) where 8 percent of the respondents (4) are in the category of

45-55. The remaining 4 percent respondents (2) belong to the age category above 55.

The researcher concluded from the above table that, majority of the people affected with

alcohol consumption is in their middle ages (35-45) in the present study.

The table reveals that 48 percent of the respondents( 29) are daily workers. The other

respondents in the study are professionals who comprise of 16 percent (8) and the remaining 8

percent (4) are students.

The researchers found out that majority of the respondents who are exposed to

alcoholism are occupied in daily working

Table No. 4.2

Distribution of respondents on the basis of monthly income

Monthly income Frequency Percentage


Below 5000 10 20
5000-10000 24 48
10000-150000 14 28
Above 15000 2 4
Total 50 100
Sources: primary data

From the table it is clear that 48 percent of the respondents (24) are having a monthly income of

5000-10000 while 28 percent (14) have family income of 10000-15000. About 20 percent (10)

have an income of 5000 and below. The training 4 percent (2) are having a monthly income of

15000 and above.

The above table depicts that people with 5000-0000 monthly income are more liable to

consume alcohol than others without considering their economic secu


Table No.4.3

Nature of alcoholic consumption of the respondent

Category Number Percentage


Daily 33 66
Occasions 11 22
Calibrations 6 12
Total 50 100
Sources: primary data

From the table it is clear that 66 percent of the respondents are daily alcoholic consumers. 22

percent of the respondents are consuming alcohol at any calibrations.

It is clear from the analysis is that majority of the respondents are daily consuming

alcohol products

Table 4.4

Respondents desire of stop alcoholic consumption

Category Number Percentage


Yes 38 76
No 12 24
Total 50 100
Sources: primary data

From the above table it is clear that, 76 percentages of respondents have the desire of stop

alcoholic consumption and 24 percentage of the respondents are not take any decision of stop

alcoholic consumption

The researcher found out that majority of the respondents, are wish to stop that alcoholic

consumption habit.

CHAPTER III

FINDINGS, SUGGESTION, CONCLUSION


FINDINGS
Majority of the respondents are (50 %) belongs to age group from 35 to 45.
Most of the respondents are (46 %) Christians.
Majority of the respondents are belongs to income group 5000-10000.
Pre-Degree is the educational qualification of most of the respondents.
84 % of the respondents are married.
Majority of the respondents are daily workers (48 %).
66 % of the respondents are daily alcoholic consumers.
Alcoholic drinkers are facing serious economic and health problems than non-drinkers.
76 % of the respondents have the desire to stop alcoholic consumption.

SUGGESTIONS

1 Government should take enough and effective steps to control the availability of alcohol.

2 Meer prohibiting alcohol will not be effective but take enough steps for de addicting the

drinkers through scientific methods.

3 Govt should reduce the welfare activity which avail excess money in the hands of working

class ie free rise program.

4 Parents, teachers, and govt should take enough care, to keep away children below the eye of

20 from alcohol.

5 The problems and cost alcoholism should be a part of high school curriculum, especially in

Kerala.

6 It should be compulsory reveal in the matrimony that whether the person has habit of

drinking alcohol.

7 The tendency of the employer of giving incentive in the form of liquid should be prohibited.

8 Women empowerment and job promotion of women should promoted through by govt. as a

welfare scheme..

9 Govt. should act by knowing the fact that the increase in price of alcohol will not reduce its

consumption.
10 Reducing the availability of alcohol through official sources may not find success in case of

addicted people it may create illegal practices so with reducing availability de addiction also

should take

11 CONCLUSION

This study presents the first attempt systematically to assess the economic impacts of alcoholism.

The study is limited in scale, however, and therefore provides only an indication of the way in

which how the alcoholic consumption is effected economic wellbeing of the people. In

particular, the study could not produce actual quantitative estimates of the effects of the

alcoholism on the consumption pattern of the people for main two reasons. First, the peoples

consumption pattern and alcoholics consumptions are related in many ways. Second, for a

number of economic impacts of interest, the data available are simply not sufficient to arrive at

definitive conclusions with much certainty. For instance, the impact of alcoholism is impossible

to estimate accurately in the absence of good data. In view of these limitations, this study cannot

answer policy questions. This study allows us to go a little bit further in discussions of issues

around alcohol consumption.

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