STATE-LEVEL SEMINAR ON STATISTICS HELD
A state-level seminar on awareness amongst data providers on the importance of reliable statistics, organised by the department of economics & statistics, was held at Capital Convention Centre, here on Tuesday.
Advisor for fisheries & aquatic resources, evaluation and economics & statistics, L Khumo, who was special guest of the inaugural programme, said the dynamics of data requirement by government for effective governance had tremendously increased in recent times.
He said that such seminars would be of great help to identify the gaps and bridge the gap for building up accurate official statistics in the State.
Khumo pointed out that the objective of the seminar was to generate awareness amongst data providers and users, which would benefit both the stakeholders in strengthening the statistical system in the State.
He expressed optimism that the presentation on various topics would be an eye opener for all the participants in dealing with official statistics of the State. Advisor observed that dependence on statistical data by the government and other organizations had tremendously increased with the change in dynamics of data availability.
Khumo later released a book on Gender Statistics 2021 and a short video on registration of births and deaths enacted by “Dreamz Unlimited” team.
Resource persons for the seminar included special secretary to the government of Nagaland, department of Economics and Statistics, Kevileno Angami; higher education deputy director, Medongoi Rhakho; Zynorique Initiatives Society chairman, Richard Belho and National e-Governance Division (NeGD), ministry of Electronics and IT, senior consultant, Yanvuo Kikon.
Earlier, the inaugural programme was chaired by joint director, Charles N Kikon, while additional director & HoD, Neidilhou Angami gave the keynote address.
The technical session was moderated by deputy director, Theyieneinuo Belho, while joint director, Neisatuo Puro gave the concluding remarks.
Gender statistics Nagaland 2021 report released
The Gender Statistics Report 2021, which was released by Advisor L. Khumo on Tuesday, is the 4th publication series published by the directorate of economics & statistics. The report focuses on demography, health, education, employment, participation in decision making, social obstacles and other gender statistics.
In demographic statistics (as per 2011 census), the sex ratio (number of females per 1000 males) is 931—for rural it is 940 and for urban areas it is 908.
Zunheboto has the highest sex ratio (976) and Mon has the lowest at 899.
During the year 2020, total number of births registered was 46079, out of which 22917 (49.73%) were female and 23162 (50.27%) were male.
Dimapur registered the highest with 6803 females and 6652 males followed by Mon with 6032 females and 5742 males.
In education and literacy during 2019-20, the gross enrolment ratio (GER) for general education at primary level for female is 165% and for male it is 163%, for upper primary class it is 79% female and 74% male, at elementary level it is 119% for female and 116% for male, at secondary level it is 61% female and 55% male and at higher secondary level it is 38% female and 34% male.
In economy and employment, the percentage of female cultivators (65.2%) and agricultural labourers (7.3%) are more than male cultivators (47.4%) and agricultural labourers (5.8%) respectively.
On the other hand, females have less percentage (24.4%) in other workers category as compared to males at (45%).
As per PMIS report, female employees comprised of only 22.46% of total employees during 2014 which substantially increased to 31.26% in 2020 out of which 31.38%, 28.55%, 28.52% and 36.55% of female employees falls under the categories of Class-I, Class-II, CLASS-III and Class-IV respectively.
In participation in decision making, during the 2018 state general election women voters were 82.48% and male voters were 86.09%. Female voters in the 17th Lok Sabha Election 2019 were 82.69% and male voters was 82.44%.
As per Rural Development department, there were 2438 VDB women members and 12 VDB women secretaries in Nagaland during 2019-20.
According to the report on census of land holdings 2015-16, total land holding size of Nagaland is 196882 hectares, out of which total land size holding by women is 19677 hectares (9.99%). Maximum land holding size by women was registered in districts of Kohima and Phek.