Volume 10, Issue 2, October 2014, Pages 476–491
Dr. B. Renganathan1 and Mrs. R. Selvam2
1 Reader and Head (Rtd), Department of Statistics, Salem Sowdeswari College, Salem-10, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem-7, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study presents the concentration of rural Taluk population using probabilistic model. Taluk size Distribution and the concentration of rural population in the Taluk are related. Taluk sizes are increased in both ways, population and area. Pareto and Exponential probabilistic model were used to describe the Taluk size Distribution. Gini's concentration ratio and Pietra index were used to study the amount of concentration of rural population. This study includes all Taluks of Tamil Nadu and their population as per 2011 census for an empirical analysis. As per this study, the concentration of the rural male population in the rural Taluk area is less than the concentration of the rural female population and the Exponential model is more suitable than the Pareto model for the study of variability in Taluk size Distribution using Gini's concentration ratio and Pietra index.
Author Keywords: Exponential Model, Gini's coefficient, Lorenz Curve, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Pareto model, Pietra Index.
Dr. B. Renganathan1 and Mrs. R. Selvam2
1 Reader and Head (Rtd), Department of Statistics, Salem Sowdeswari College, Salem-10, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem-7, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study presents the concentration of rural Taluk population using probabilistic model. Taluk size Distribution and the concentration of rural population in the Taluk are related. Taluk sizes are increased in both ways, population and area. Pareto and Exponential probabilistic model were used to describe the Taluk size Distribution. Gini's concentration ratio and Pietra index were used to study the amount of concentration of rural population. This study includes all Taluks of Tamil Nadu and their population as per 2011 census for an empirical analysis. As per this study, the concentration of the rural male population in the rural Taluk area is less than the concentration of the rural female population and the Exponential model is more suitable than the Pareto model for the study of variability in Taluk size Distribution using Gini's concentration ratio and Pietra index.
Author Keywords: Exponential Model, Gini's coefficient, Lorenz Curve, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Pareto model, Pietra Index.
How to Cite this Article
Dr. B. Renganathan and Mrs. R. Selvam, “A Study on the concentration of Rural Taluk Population in Tamil Nadu State,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 476–491, October 2014.
