District Level Report Gandhinagar

Author

Ayush Patel

Published

August 23, 2022

Introduction - Gandhinagar

This report aims to provide a birds eye view of the district through the lens of village amenities data released by census in 2011. Before moving towards the descriptive insights from the census data, here is what pops up when a search is executed for Gandhinagar district Gujarat on wikipedia.



Summary Statistics

Total Number of Villages: 252

Total Number of Gram Panchayat: 245

Total Number of Sub Districts: 4

Total Population : 7.91126^{5}

Statistical Summaries at the subdistrict level

Sub District Total Population Total SC Population Total ST Population Total Area of Vilalges Total Area Sown (Net)
Dehgam 225930 8515 816 55800.98 43377.30
Gandhinagar 200426 10073 820 41463.23 33832.54
Kalol 188550 11721 522 41509.69 32452.14
Mansa 176220 10145 425 33700.71 27186.02

Population and Geographical Area

It is of interest to look into which are the most densely populated villages. We can do this by creating a simple scatter plot between population of village and the total geographical area of a village.


Irrigation for Agriculture

The census provides the net area sown (hectares) in a village along with area irrigated with water source in hectares. The area under irrigation may be affected by several factors.

Area Sown vs Area under Irrigation


A distribution for the percentage of area irrigated will be interesting to look at.

Understanding what drives area under irrigation

Much is heard about rain fed agriculture in India. There are several factors that can affect area under irrigation - ranging from government supports, demographics, distance from urban clusters and several known and unknown variables. With the given data we can check if the following variables have any relation with area under irrigation:

  • Percentage of Marginalised group population in village
  • Distance from Major government offices
  • Distance from urban center
  • Total population of a village

A simple Linear regression to see if the above explanation has any merit

Dependent variable:
perc_irrigated_over_net_sown
total_population_of_village -0.0002
(0.001)
perc_marginalised_pop 0.464
(0.356)
district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.613***
(0.209)
sub_district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.104
(0.314)
nearest_statutory_town_distance_in_km 0.264
(0.379)
sub_district_nameGandhinagar -0.338
(5.700)
sub_district_nameKalol -0.007
(4.331)
sub_district_nameMansa 17.014***
(4.026)
Constant 79.188***
(7.325)
Observations 245
R2 0.144
Adjusted R2 0.115
Residual Std. Error 21.077 (df = 236)
F Statistic 4.977*** (df = 8; 236)
Note: p<0.1; p<0.05; p<0.01

Model Diagnostic plots

Distribution of Redsiduals


Residuals vs Fitted

Note

This is to serve as a minimal example of creating parameterised reports with .rmd/.qmd files. This document is in no way analytically or statistically rigorous.