Efficiency in statistical methods among post-graduate students of social sciences

The present study is an attempt to find out the level of statistical competency among post-graduate students studying in the faculty of Sciences and Social Sciences. A standardized test, constructed by Govil & Others (2015) was administered on a sample of 185 post-graduate students selected through random sampling technique to achieve the objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that the level of statistical competency of post-graduate students was below than average and there existed no difference among them with reference to gender and living place. But stream of study caused significant difference among post-graduate students. The post graduate students performed well on one of the aspects of statistical competency i.e. ‘Basic understating of statistical concept’ but were very poor on the use of non-parametric statistics’.