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A Study of Factors affecting Female Literacy using Factor Analysis: A Case Study of State of Maharashtra, India - Softcover

Ahmad, Anjum Ara M. K.

 
9783659883552: A Study of Factors affecting Female Literacy using Factor Analysis: A Case Study of State of Maharashtra, India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3659883557 ISBN 13: 9783659883552
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Literacy can affect people’s lives, of both women and men, through several channels. The objectives of the study were to study the literacy levels of female literacy rate in different States of India as well as the districts of Maharashtra. The study also tried to find the factors affecting female literacy rates in the districts of Maharashtra. The study was based mainly on secondary data from the Census. Advance Statistical techniques like Factor Analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analyses were used in the study. Fifteen factors were used in the study as variables affecting the female literacy rate in the combine data of Maharashtra. Two indexes were developed in the study namely economic wealth index and medical index using statistical techniques like Principal Component Analysis. In rural areas as well as urban areas four principal components were extracted. Based on maximum loadings the variables were divided into four groups of factors. The study gave many suggestions to improve female literacy in the districts of Maharashtra on the bases of the findings of the study.

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Dr. (Mrs.) Anjum Ara Ahmad is Vice-Principal and Associate Professor in Rizvi College of Arts, Sc. & Comm., Mumbai. She has been working in the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics since 1994. Has done her M.Sc(Statistics) and PhD.(Economics) from Univ. of Mumbai. The author has published 26 papers in national/international journals and proceedings.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3659883557
ISBN 13 
9783659883552
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100
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