Development and standardization of scale to measure opinion of the beneficiary farmers towards working pattern of primary agriculture credit societies (PACS)

Abstract

IAn attempt has been made in this paper to develop and standardize a valid and reliable scale for measuring the opinion of the beneficiary farmers towards working pattern of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS). The ‘Scale Product Method’ was used to develop the opinion scale. 55 statements were selected for judgment and send to a panel of 100 judges of concerned subject. The judges were requested to judge each statement critically and assign the score for each statement on five point equal appearing interval continuum. Based on the score given by the judges for each statements, the scale/ median value (S value) and quartile value (Q value) was calculated for each statements and on the basis of these values, 16 statements were finally selected for inclusion in the final format of the opinion scale.