Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Vasant P. Pethe , V. S. Badari

Abstract

The 1961 Census of India had been more comprehensive than any other previous Census, in the sense that it collected a large mass of data on a variety of social and economic aspects of the population. In particular, the 1961 Census has presented detailed data on the economic activity of the working population for each village, town and city. This information is extremely useful for analysing the economic base of individual village or town as well as for studying the location of economic activity.

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V. S. Badari

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R. Stone has used the concept of distance in respect of a number of different economic criteria for grouping regions into homogeneous groups with respect to those criteria. The same device (with a modification) has been used here to group districts in Maharashtra into homogeneous groups with respect to cropping patterns. Acreages under different crops have been used as indicators of the cropping pattern. As it is intended to arrive at groups with relatively stable cropping patterns, five-year averages of acreages under different crops, rather than single-year acreages, have been used.

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