Political families of Uttar Pradesh

NREGA Analysis

Variable summary

Workdays - total days worked under NREGS

– Coded as: log(Workdays + 1)

Worked - number of individuals who worked under NREGS

– Coded as: log(Worked + 1)

Deposits - sum of disbursements to laborers’ bank and post office accounts

– Coded as: log(Bank Deposits + Post office Deposits + 1)

Table 1: Summary of NREGA
Year Total number of projects Total days Average days per project Average number of projects per constituency Average days per constituency
2009 85333 667898.9 7.8 1094 8562.8

Constituency type

Table 2: NREGA summary stats wrt constituency type
Caste group Average number of projects Average days Average number of poeple Average money disbursed
Family 1075.4 8435.2 4894.0 13420.9
Non-family 1106.3 8647.0 5079.7 13861.0

experience

Table 3: NREGA road stats wrt to experience categories
Experience category Average number of projects Average days Average number of poeple Average money disbursed
[0,1) 1392 9011 5255 14387
[1,6) 1087 7338 4423 11727
[6,11) 1315 9130 5327 14695
[11,21) 1204 8489 4956 13513
[21,Inf] 1334 8689 5025 13873

caste

Table 4: NREGA road stats wrt to caste groups
Caste group Average number of projects Average days Average number of poeple Average money disbursed
Others 1947 13692 7969 21859
Yadav 1371 10287 5920 16502
Non-Yadav OBC 1307 7725 4469 12303
Dalit 1304 9564 5614 15368
Upper Caste 1222 8128 4766 12991
Muslim 1028 6852 4029 10808