Barman

Literacy Rate: UNESCO defines literacy as “the ability to identify, understand,

interpret, create, communication and compute, using printed and written materials

associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of teach individuals

to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and to participate fully in their in

their community and wider society”.

The population commission of United Nations considers the ability to both read

and write a simple message with understanding in any language a sufficient basis

for classifying a person as literate. The Indian census has adopted this definition.

Literacy rate is the total percentage of the population of an area at a particular

time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding, taking

the total population aged seven years or more as the denominator.

Literacy in Dakshin Dinajpur is key for socio-economic progress and the district

literacy rate grew to 73.86%. The analysis of the table 1 reveals that in Dakshin

Dinajpur literacy rate of block Kushumandi, Harirampur, Banshihari, Tapan is low.

Literacy rate of block Balurghat, Hili are moderate and municipality Balurghat and

Gangarampur is slightly high.

Multiple Regression Analysis (Matrix Technique) :

Table 2 : Calculation table for multiple Regression Analysis

X 2

2

X 1

2

Y

X 1

X 2

X 1 Y

X 2 Y

X 1 X 2

86.60

34

14

2944.4

1212.4

476

1156

196

77.60

32

9

2483.2

698.4

288

1024

81

64.90

72

14

4672.8

908.6

1008

5184

196

78.90

220

48

17358.0

3787.2

10560

48400

2304

66.80

139

42

9285.2

2805.5

5838

19321

1764

59.50

200

39

11900

2320.5

7800

40000

1521

62.60

164

44

10266.4

2754.4

7216

26896

1936

59.50

96

25

5712

1487.5

2400

9216

625

56.30

140

41

7882

2308.3

5740

19600

1681

53.90

72

26

3880.8

1401.4

1872

5184

676

X 2 =

2

X 1 =

2

Y =

X 1 =

X 2 =

X 1 Y =

X 2 Y=

X 1 X 2 =

666.6

1169

302

76384.8

19684.3

43198

175981

10980

Source : calculated by the author

Multiple Regression Analysis (Matrix Technique): Any rectangular

arrangement of arrays arranged in columns or rows is known as matrix. It can also

be defined as a system of m*n numbers arranged in an ordered set of m rows, each

rows consisting of an ordered set of n numbers. Such a matrix is called an m*n

matrix. (Mahmood, 1998).

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