Occupational Aspiration of Agricultural Graduates

Variables and their measurement

Variable

Measurement

Dependent variable

Occupational aspiration

Procedure followed by Sagone(1979)

Independent variable

Chronological age of the respondents in completed

Age

years

Gender

Structured schedule used for the study

Birth and native place

Procedure suggested by Hosur(1977)

Place of education

Procedure suggested by Hosur(1977)

Education level of father

Procedure used by Sivarnurthy (1994)

Education level of mother

Procedure used by Sivarnurthy (1994)

father’s occupation

Procedure of Pareek and Trivedi(1964)

Mother’s occupation

Procedure of Pareek and Trivedi(1964)

Parent’s income

Structured schedule used for the study

Family type

Procedure of Pareek and Trivedi(1964)

Sibling status

Procedure followed by Ashok Kumar(1987)

Academic performance

Procedure followed by Ashok Kumar(1987)

Sources

of

information

Structured schedule used for the study

utilized for job placement

Results and Discussion

The purpose of this study was to identify the occupational aspiration ofAgricultural

students. The distribution of respondents according to their occupational aspiration

is depicted in the Table 1. The result of the Table 1 revealed that majority of the

student’s preferred Agriculture Research Service (ARS) job in ICAR organisation

followed by securing an administrative job in government departments. The third

and fourth rank went in favour of securing a job in multinational bank and securing

a job an academic position in university/college. The least preferred occupation

was to enter politics.

Table 1. Occupational aspiration of students of B.C.K.V

n = 232

SL . No.

Job Aspiration

Score

Rank

1.

To secure an academic position in university/college

1624

iv

2.

To secure an executive job in govt. department

1392

ii

3.

To secure an executive job in private company

2041

vii

4.

To start one’s own business/to be self employed

3990

xx

5.

To secure a job in a nationalized bank

1670

v

6.

To secure a job in a multi nationalized bank

1438

iii

465