A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERACY AND SEX-RATIO OF TRIBAL POPULATION IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT

Literacy and sex ratio both are important parameters for the study of demographic, socio-cultural and economic status of any region. Literacy is a sensitive indicator of the cultural advancement of an area. It develops the personality and rationality of individuals, qualifies them to fulfill certain economic, political and cultural functions and, thereby, plays an active part in the socio-economic transformation of society. The sex composition is also an important demographic component of human development. It is the basic biological attributes of any demographic group. It can be expressed either in the form of a proportion of a particular sex in the population or as a ratio between the population of two sexes. The sex ratio represents the most radially recognizable components of the population. It is in advance and rising objective consequence with a growing emphasis on the regional planning and regional approach to the population policy. Information about the pattern of sex ratio helps to enlighten the employment and consumption pattern, social requirement of the peoples and perhaps the psychological characteristics of a society. Besides, the ratio can reflect the social, economic, biological and migration characteristics of the population. According to a census of India, the general literacy rate in Maharashtra state and Ahmednagar District was 82.34 and 79.05 percent respectively in 2011. About 50.15 percent of the tribal population of Ahmednagar district recorded as literate in 2001, which have experienced an upward trend up to 56.18 percent in 2011. While the sex ratio of the tribal population is declining from 977 (2001) to 971 (2011) in the district. There is a wide variation in the spatial pattern of literacy and sex ratio in the district. In the present study, literacy and sex ratio are taken under consideration and further relation between literacy and sex ratio has to find out by applying Spearman's Rank Correlation method.