The Geographical Study Of Population And Literacy In Satara District (Maharashtra)

Abstract Population and literacy are two significant correlated demographic factors. Literacy plays a very important role in population. This paper is an attempt to analyze the ‘Application of GIS for study of Correlation between Population and literacy in Satara District’. The literacy is one of the very significant qualitative indictor of social development associated to the economic development. Even today education is the most intrinsic instrument for changing the socio-economic status of an individual and society as a whole. Literacy affected on various attributes of the population such as fertility, mortality, migration and also sex ratio. The knowledge of population is essential for the understanding the socio-condition of society. A increased or maximum population is strongly suggestive of the neglect of girl children, minimum education level, less mortality and traditional attitudes of the society. Thus, the analysis of Population and literacy is immense important. Spearman’s Rank Difference method is used for analyzes the correlation of literacy & population ratio. The study reveals that correlation between population and literacy is r = 0.45. It is a moderate positive correlation.