District Level Report Surat

Author

Ayush Patel

Published

August 23, 2022

Introduction - Surat

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 Surat district Gujarat on wikipedia.



Summary Statistics

Total Number of Villages: 713

Total Number of Gram Panchayat: 516

Total Number of Sub Districts: 9

Total Population : 1.232109^{6}

Statistical Summaries at the subdistrict level

Sub District Total Population Total SC Population Total ST Population Total Area of Vilalges Total Area Sown (Net)
Bardoli 147733 5642 90557 36692.22 29945.74
Chorasi 86225 2602 18261 17287.86 12163.10
Kamrej 178417 9509 57900 37131.14 31061.31
Mahuva 144906 2174 117675 35401.04 26933.55
Mandvi 177735 1714 145183 72569.36 41305.01
Mangrol 163598 6166 89133 56110.75 30925.86
Olpad 162884 6648 44361 67413.42 42846.33
Palsana 86888 4084 39357 18804.29 15976.44
Umarpada 83723 101 80986 26071.04 12815.45

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 -0.001
(0.001)
perc_marginalised_pop 0.010
(0.052)
district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.432***
(0.093)
sub_district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.148
(0.134)
nearest_statutory_town_distance_in_km -0.190**
(0.081)
sub_district_nameChorasi 0.775
(5.580)
sub_district_nameKamrej 7.798*
(4.440)
sub_district_nameMahuva 11.531***
(4.059)
sub_district_nameMandvi -8.875**
(3.911)
sub_district_nameMangrol -22.223***
(3.947)
sub_district_nameOlpad -3.733
(4.448)
sub_district_namePalsana 2.691
(4.864)
sub_district_nameUmarpada -39.889***
(6.189)
Constant 102.158***
(5.649)
Observations 667
R2 0.511
Adjusted R2 0.501
Residual Std. Error 24.051 (df = 653)
F Statistic 52.464*** (df = 13; 653)
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.