Development and Standardisation of a Livelihood Security Scale to Assess the Success of a Youth-Based Project

Abstract

An attempt was made in the present study to develop a standardized scale to analyses the livelihood security of of youth beneficiaries under ARYA project. The livelihood security scale consists of Eight dimensions viz., economic security, health security, migration component, social security, ecological security, psychological security, food security, and physical security and the scale was considered highly reliable and valid. The livelihood scale consists of 46 statements were administered to 32 youth beneficiaries under ARYA project in Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Papparappaty in the state of Tamil Nadu during 2022-2023. It is found thatyouths have been spread over better to average (75.00 %) level of livelihood category followed by poor livelihood category (25.00 %).