DISTRICT STATISTICAL HAND BOOK 1986 e r n a k u l a m DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS TRIVANDRUM NIEPA DC e 8,'12- l D04233 D !ir r—*-*tL 4i»^ s ^ 2 ?. PREFACE Govemmcnt of Kerala have already decided to consider district and even development block as basic unit to plan and execute selected schemes. Since different departments are required to undertake detailed planning exercise, it is important that they have to be provided with adequate and timely data at district and block levels. The department has recently published ‘BlojJj: Level Statistics’ for all the 14 districts. ‘District Statisticj^Hand^Books’ are in^nded to present almost all impo|^nt dat^TOcpicting tjie socio­ economic conditioft^kuf th^di^rictl ^ The District Statistical Hand Book of Ernakulam was prepared by Sri C. Issac, Research Assistant under the guidance of Mr. V. K. Paran Unni former Deputy Director, District Office, Economics and Statistics, Ernakulam. I hope that this publication will be of consi­ derable use to planners and researchers who are interested to study the problems of the district. Suggestions fbr improvement are most welcome. Trivandrum, K . B alakrishnan N a i r , 9-12-1986. Director o f Economics and Statistics. 68/ 2 — l a CONTENTS Page Section 1—Human resources 1.1 Administrative development division— 1986 . 3 1.2 Growth of population—1901 to 1981 ... 3 1.3 Taluk-wise distribution of area, popula­ tion, sex ratio and literacy— 1971 and 1981 . 4 1.4 Taluk-wisc distribution of rural and urban population and density— 1971 and 1981 .. 5 1.5 Area and population of municipalities and towns— 1981 . 6 1.6 Taluk-wise distribution of households and average size of family—1971 and 1981 .. 7 1.7 Taluk-wise distribution of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population— 1971 and 1981 .. 8 1.8 Population by religion —1971 and 1981 .. 9 1.9 Population by age group— 1971 .. 10 1.10 Taluk-wise distribution of workers and non-workers— 1981 H 1.11 Taluk-wise distribution of main workers under various industrial categories— 1981 .. 12 1.12 Sex—Classification of main workers under various industrial categories in taluks— 1981 13 1.13 Number of applicants on the live register of employment exchanges 1982-83 to 1984-85 .. 14 1.14 Registration and placements effected by employment exchanges—1970-71, 1980-81 and 1984-85 .. 14 ii Page Section 2—Agriculture 2.1 Normal and average annual rainfall 17 2 .2 Monthly rainfall at rain recording stations 18 2.3 Distribution of area according to land utilisation 20 2.4 Distribution of operational holdings according to size of holding 1976-77 and 1980-81 21 2.5 Area and yield of principal crops 22 2.6 Estimated mean yield of paddy—Dry rice 24 2.7 Area irrigated by sources 27 2.8 Agricultural implements and machinery 28 2 .9 Livestock population— 1977 and 1982 29 2.10 Number of veterinary institutions, personnel and livestock treated 30 2.11 Livestock slaughtered in panchayats 31 2.12 Livestock slaughtered in rhunicipalitics and corporations 31 2.13 Taluk-wise distribution of fishermen households and fishermen population 32 2.14 Out-turn of major forest products 33 Section 3—Industries and banks 3.1 Number of non-agricultural enterprises and persons working in rural and urban areas— 1980 37 3.2 Industry-wise distributipn of registered factories and employment 38 3.3 Industry-wise distribution of small scalc industrial units 40 3.4 Details of handloom, coir and milk supply societies 41 3 .5 Number of printing presses at work, newspapers and periodicals published 42 3.6 Details of scheduled commcrcial banks 43 3.7 Details of non-industrial co-operative societies 44 lU Page Section 4—Transport and Communication 4.1 Length of roads 49 4 .2 Details of roads maintained by panchayats 50 4.3 Length of railways 50 4.4 Number of registered motor vehicles on road 50 4 .5 Posts and telegraph offices 51 4 .6 Number of accidents on road, persons killed and injnred 51 Section 5—Education 5.1 N umber of schools for general education 55 5.2 Number of schools for professional and special education 55 5.3 Number of students in general education 56 5.4 Number of students belonging to Scheduled Castes 56 5.5 Number of students belonging to Scheduled Tribes 57 5 .6 Number of students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for higher education 57 5.7 Number of teacheis in general education 58 5.8 Number of teachers in teachers training course 58 5 .9 Number of students for higher education 59 5.10 Number of teachers for higher ejducatign 59 5.11 Number of institutions for higher educa­ tion by type of management 60 Section 6—Medical and health care 6 .1 Medical institutions, beds and personnel 63 6.2 Patients treated in medical institycions 64 6 .3 Family welfare programmes 65 6.4 Private sector medical facilities under various systems , 66 IV Page Section 7—Prices and wages 7.1 Farm prices of important commodities (centre-wise) 7.2 Farm prices of important commodities (month-wise) 7.3 Wholesale prices of important commo­ dities (cen+re-wise) 7.4 Wholesale prices of important commo­ dities (month-wise) 7.5 Average daily employment in plaiUatlous 7.6 Consumer price indices for the working class 7.7 Average daily wage rates of paddy field labour 7.8 Average daily wage rates of skilled and unskilled labour in the construction sector 7.9 Average monthly wage rates of shop assistants in the trade and commerce sector Section 8—Miscellaneous 8.1 District income at current prices 8.2 District income by broad sector at current prices 8 .3 Small savings collection 8 .4 Classification of persons assessed for agricultural income tax 8.5 Revenue from agricultural income tax 8.6 Sales tax assessees and registered dealers 8.7 Demand, collection, remission and balance under general sales tax 8.8 Revenue from general sales tax 8 .9 Agricultural income tax and super tax demanded on different agricultural produce 8.10 Demand, collection and balance of land taxes Page 8.11 Number of sub registry offices 105 8.12 Number of documents registered 105 8.13 Taluk-wise details of trees tapped and tree tax collected 106 8.14 Taluk-wise number of liquor shops 107 8.15 Licence fee collected on foreign liquor 108 8.16 Taluk-wise details of rentals obtained in auction sale of abkari shops 109 8.17 Income and expenditure of panchayats 110 8.18 Income of municipalities 111 8.19 Expendit ure of Municipalities 112 8.20 Number and seating aipacity of cinema houses and talkies in panchayats 113 8.21 Offences reported and persons tried, con­ victed and aquitted for cases of offences 114 8.22 Police stations and outposts 115 8.23 Statement of serious crimes 115 8.24 Housing conditions— 1980 115 8.25 Area and population of panchayats in the district 116 8.26 Area and population of revenue villages in the districts 119 SEC TIO N I HUMAN RESOURCES / .r / : P t : . 1.1 Administrative/development division 1986 SI. J^ame o f Taluk Number o f J^ame o f Block Number JVo. Revenue o f Pan- Villages chayats (0 (2) (3) (4) (5) I Kanayannur 25 Edappilly 4 Mulanthuruthy 6 Vyttila 2 2 Cochin 15 Palluruthy 2 Vypeen 7 3 AKvave 18 Pavakkadavu 5 i\ngamali 9 4 Parur 13 Alangad 4 Parur 5 5 Kunnathunad 23 Vadaviicode 6 Vazhakulam 6 Koovappady 5 6 Muvattupuzha 18 Muvattupuzha 8 Pampakuda 8 7 Kot hama nga lam 10 Kothamangalarn 9 Total 122 86 1.2 Growth of Population 1901 to 1981 Year Population Decadal Density o f Sex ratio increase population {percentage) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1901 646,261 268 985 1911 735,297 13-78 305 990 1921 789,343 7-35 328 969 1931 982,769 24-50 408 994 1941 1,172,335 19-29 487 995 1951 1,393,730 18-88 579 1008 1961 1,698,575 21-87 705 999 1971 2,163,674 27*38 899 988 1981 2,535,294 17-18 1053 998 Source: Census reports. 1'3 Talnk-wrise distrfbation of area, population, sex ratio and literacy—1971 and 1881 1 1 Density of Literacy Population Sex ratio j ^ population (percenta^ge) ! 1 1971 1981 u Taluk S 1971 ! 1981 1971 1981 1971 1981 J V i 1 1 ”3 [< Ji i S 1 5 *> 1 1 CO < e2 tL, 1 [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 13 1 8 9 11 1 !f ! 1 , 1 1 1 1Kanayannur 1 322-7 1498884 607084 304428 302656 j 1546 1881 979 994 69-46 77-91 2 Cochin I 140-9 ' 396849 451059 225250 225809 ! 2818 : 3201 979 : 1002 I 67-14 80-18 1! 1 j 3 Alwayc 326-3 1302176 365567 1182394 183173 926 1120 993 ' 1004 ‘ 60-63 1 74-32 4 Parur 191-6 281047 320987 159605 161382 : 1467 1675 1002 1011 ][ 66-76 77-36 5 ! Kunnathimad 1 677-7 I 292113 348168 175436 172732 i 431 514 987 1 985 1 61-60 74-46 6 Muvattupuzha 1 433-5 i 250227 277694 139163 138531 577 11 641 1000 995 65-95 77-28 7 Kothamangalam 285-0 j 142378 164735 82898 81837 500 578 985 987 60-10 72-31 1 1 1 i I i 1 1 1 1 1 I i 1 District total 2408-0 2163674 2535294 1269174 1266120 910 1053 988 998 65-37 ! 76-82 i i 1 1 I 1 Source: Census reports.