A STUDY OF GENDER RATIO- A GEOGRAPHICAL APPEARANCES OF KARNATAKA

  • Unique Paper ID: 168210
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 10
  • PageNo: 478-481
  • Abstract:
  • Demographic Characteristics i.e., Literacy & Gender Ratio play important role in the development process so that in the present study these indicators have been selected to analyses its pattern at district levels and their relationship for overall development of Karnataka. Education is recognized as a major component of human development in the world. Literacy and Gender ratio are most important indicators of development in any particular area. Literacy is an index of human development and quality of human life. It affects birth rates on the one hand and also indicates the level of economic development, living standards, status of women and technological development etc. Gender ratio of a population refers to the balance between male and female in any population. It can be expressed either in the form of proportion of a particular Gender in the population or as ratio between male and female. About 56% of Karnataka population recorded as a literate in 1991 which has increased 63.74% in 2001 and in 2011 it reached up to 75.60% which shows increasing trend in literacy in Karnataka. Karnataka has Gender ratio in 2011 was 964 against nation average of 940 in 2011 which is more than national Average. In the present study literacy and Gender ratio has been undertaken to find out their relationship by applying Spearmen’s Rank Correlation method.

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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 10
  • PageNo: 478-481

A STUDY OF GENDER RATIO- A GEOGRAPHICAL APPEARANCES OF KARNATAKA

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