INDIAN LITERACY RATE: A STUDY

Abstract: A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. Here we are focussing on literacy rate, any one above age 7 who can read and write in any language was considered a literate. In censuses before 1991, children below the age 5 were treated as illiterates. In this paper, we are estimating the population and literacy rate for the year 2021 using 2011 census data. We have used cluster analysis, simple regression, logistic curve method, multiple regression and R programming as the tools to estimate the population and literacy rate of 2021.

Keywords: Census, literacy rate, regression, cluster analysis, R programming