Correlation Between Literacy Rate and Sex Ratio in Kongu Uplands Tamil Nadu: A Geographical Analysis

This study is an examine to analyze the correlation between literacy rate and sex ratio in Kongu Uplands of Tamil Nadu. Literacy rate and sex ratio are one of the most important components of social development in any region. Generally literacy is defined as the ability to read and write in simple language especially in mother tongue. Sex ratio means number of female per thousandmalepopulation. The sex ratio depends on birth rate, death rate and migration. This study is based on secondary data collected from Census of India 2001. The main objectives of the study are to understand the spatial patterns of literacy rateand sex ratio of Kongu Uplands and to examine correlation between literacy rate and sex ratio of the study area. The Spearman's Rank correlation methodhas been adopted to find out the correlation between literacy rate and sex ratio. Based on this statistical method, result shows that there is a weak and positive correlation (r=0.33) between literacy rate and sex ratio in Kongu Uplands. ArcGIS 10 software is used for preparingmaps.