Table 1.

Demographic status of the respondents from Jammu and Kashmir, Western Himalayas, India.

Demographic Features	Total	Biogeographic Provinces		(Linguistic) Ethnic Groups
		Jammu	Kashmir	Kashmiri	Pahari	Bakarwal	Gujjar	Dogra
Respondents	489	233	256	194	81	71	69	74
Language				Kashmiri Urdu	Pahari Urdu	Gujari Urdu	Gujari Urdu	Dogri Urdu
Gender
Male	372	161	211	148	71	44	51	58
Female	117	62	55	46	10	27	18	16
Age range (years)
Young (18–26)	101	43	57	37	16	18	16	14
Middle (27–55)	136	61	74	49	22	24	18	23
Old (56–75+)	252	102	152	108	43	29	35	37
Profession
Farmers	20	8	12	11	2	2	2	3
Shepherds	56	22	14	14	9	21	7	5
Semi-skilled Workers	113	43	70	82	15	0	8	8
Daily wage laborers	82	34	48	41	21	0	7	13
Govt. employees	32	10	22	10	5	5	5	7
Housewives	54	25	29	10	11	15	10	8
Skilled workers	73	31	42	11	12	26	15	9
Shopkeepers	59	28	31	15	6	2	15	21
Livelihood source				Horticulture & Cattle rearing	Horticulture & Cattle rearing	Pastoralism	Agriculture Pastoralism	Sericulture Agriculture Cattle rearing
Population				51.72%	7.80%	11.90%	9.05%	20.04%
Descendants/Migrated from				Indo-European	Kash empire	Migrated from Gujrat	Migrated from Northwestern Frontier Province	Ikshvaku (Solar) dynasty