District Level Report Jamnagar

Ayush Patel

2022-08-23

Introduction - Jamnagar

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 Jamnagar district Gujarat on wikipedia.



Summary Statistics

Total Number of Villages: 714

Total Number of Gram Panchayat: 600

Total Number of Sub Districts: 10

Total Population : 1.189054^{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)
Bhanvad 103419 6782 7374 69669.19 25377.00
Dhrol 53432 4730 86 53086.85 38681.46
Jamjodhpur 106606 12989 5450 102183.72 55324.87
Jamnagar 202767 18318 530 111062.41 79904.96
Jodiya 85958 6698 271 86866.32 54216.00
Kalavad 111415 13130 1211 120847.63 78387.58
Kalyanpur 176256 9656 544 137053.60 83839.48
Khambhalia 179619 8911 614 118385.46 74853.69
Lalpur 118187 12325 377 106714.70 59948.39
Okhamandal 51395 5839 35 61603.29 32693.19

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 -0.0001
(0.0003)
perc_marginalised_pop -0.020
(0.060)
district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.094**
(0.043)
sub_district_head_quarter_distance_in_km -0.190**
(0.074)
nearest_statutory_town_distance_in_km 0.013
(0.081)
sub_district_nameDhrol 17.427***
(3.492)
sub_district_nameJamjodhpur 8.412***
(2.955)
sub_district_nameJamnagar 7.582*
(3.971)
sub_district_nameJodiya -9.815***
(3.537)
sub_district_nameKalavad 13.475***
(2.966)
sub_district_nameKalyanpur 14.234***
(3.481)
sub_district_nameKhambhalia 12.065***
(2.864)
sub_district_nameLalpur 5.338
(3.889)
sub_district_nameOkhamandal -21.526***
(4.322)
Constant 45.456***
(4.155)
Observations 662
R2 0.376
Adjusted R2 0.363
Residual Std. Error 15.400 (df = 647)
F Statistic 27.862*** (df = 14; 647)
Note: p<0.1; p<0.05; p<0.01

Model Diagnostic plots

Distribution of Redsiduals

Distribution of Redsiduals


Residuals vs Fitted

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.