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Household’s basic amenities like drinking water, sanitation, electricity, housing, drainage etc are the important indicator of quality of life. Housing is the one of the important basic needs of individual after food and clothing. In current era, every individual wants basic amenities such as water, cooking and sanitation facilities. Objective is to study the household’s characteristics among socio-economic status in rural and urban areas of district Ludhiana of Punjab, India. The study used the multistage sampling procedures for data collection. District is selected using purposively in first stage. Blocks selected using cluster sampling in second stage, in third stage villages were selected stratified random sampling and fourth stage, households selected using random sampling. Total 400 households covered for the data collection rural and urban areas of Ludhiana district. Wealth quintile is generated by using Principal component statistical method for different assets of households. Monthly per capita expenditure for rural isRs.1793 and urban is Rs.1991. The study concluded that bottom quintiles such as poorest and poor shows low access to basic amenities like sanitation, cooking, water and housing. It was further seen that economic status of households is strongly related to basic amenities.
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