Statistical evaluation of spatio-temporal development in Haryana
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Date
2005
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The level of development of various districts of Haryana state were
estimated separately for agricultural, industrial, infrastructure & services and overall
socio-economic sectors with the help of composite index of development based on
optimum combination of forty seven development indicators combined in an optimum
manner. The study utilized data for different districts over various periods ending
triennium 1971-72 (Period I), 1981-82 (Period II), 1991-92 (Period III), and 2001-02
(Period IV). Out of forty seven development indicators, twenty three indicators were
directly concerned with agricultural development, four indicators depicted the progress
of development in the industrial sector and the rest of twenty indicators presented the
level of development in infrastructure & service sector. All the forty seven indicators
taken together represent the overall socio-economic development for this study. The
variation in the level of development in industrial sector was observed to be of higher
order as compared to the variation in agricultural and infrastructural services sector.
Positive significant association was observed between the levels of development in
agricultural and overall socio- economic development in all the periods of study except
the first period. The non significant association was found between agriculture and
industry which is not a healthy situation. No significant changes in the level of
development were observed between different periods in agricultural, industrial and
overall socio-economic sectors. However, a significant change was found in the level of
development of infrastructural service sector between the first and fourth, second and
fourth and third and fourth periods. The different districts have been classified as highly
developed, developed, developing, backward and very backward on the basis of
quintiles classification from an assumed Beta distribution of the mean of the indices for
all the sectors. For bringing about uniform regional development in the state, model
districts for the backward / very backward districts have been identified and the
potential targets for various indicators have been estimated. The study revealed that the
backward / very backward districts required improvements of various dimensions in
almost all the indicators for enhancing their level of development in different sectors.