District Level Report The Dangs

Author

Ayush Patel

Published

August 23, 2022

Introduction - The Dangs

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 The Dangs district Gujarat on wikipedia.



Summary Statistics

Total Number of Villages: 308

Total Number of Gram Panchayat: 69

Total Number of Sub Districts: 1

Total Population : 2.03604^{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)
The Dangs 203604 151 200138 171306.2 60703.91

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
(0.002)
perc_marginalised_pop 0.046
(0.135)
district_head_quarter_distance_in_km 0.112
(0.080)
sub_district_head_quarter_distance_in_km
nearest_statutory_town_distance_in_km -0.110
(0.082)
Constant -1.247
(13.579)
Observations 308
R2 0.011
Adjusted R2 -0.002
Residual Std. Error 11.356 (df = 303)
F Statistic 0.812 (df = 4; 303)
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.