A STUDY ON CORRELATION BETWEEN LITERACY AND SEX RATIO IN GUJARAT

The economic and social development of a country depends to a great extent on literacy level of its population. Literacy and sex ratio are two important demographic features of population. Literacy plays a vital role in betterment of the sex ratio. In this paper, an attempt has made to analyze the correlation between literacy and sex ratio in Gujarat district. Education is across the world renowned as a major element of human development. Literacy affects to various   attributes of the population such as fertility, mortality, birth rate, living of standard, migration, status of women and also sex ratio. Literacy plays an important role in bringing equality in the sex ratio. The knowledge of sex ratio is crucial for the understanding the condition of women in society. In the present study, Spearman’s Rank correlation method is used to measure the relationship between literacy and sex ratio in Gujarat state. The literacy is considered as in dependent variable, while sex ratio is considered as dependent variable. The study reveals that there is negative correlation (-0.52) between literacy and sex ratio. This means that both the variables i.e. literacy and sex ratio are independent of each other. The study also reveals that when sex ratio is high, literacy is lower means more focus is given on education towards males as compared to females in Gujarat.