Read the following table and answer the following questions : 1. What does the table tell us? 2. What are the three states compared here?

Question

Read the following table and answer the following questions.
Some Comparative data of Selected States :

state	IMR per 1000 (2006)	Literacy rate (%) {2011)	Net Attendance Rate (2006)
Punjab	42	77	76
Himachal Pradesh	36	84	90
Bihar	62	64	56

1.  What does the table tell us?

2. What are the three states compared here?

3. What does IMR mean?

4. Which state ranks best in literacy rate?

5. What is the Net Attendance Rate of Bihar in 2006?

6. What is the position of Punjab in 2011 with regard to literacy rate?

7. What is literacy rate?

8. Why is the number of children below the age of 6 not considered for counting of Net Attendance Rate?

9. Which state ranks first when we consider the above data ?

10. How do you say Bihar is an underdeveloped state ?

Answer 1

1. The table tells us about some comparative data of selected states.

2.  The three states compared are Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar.

3.  IMR means Infant Mortality Rate.

4.  Himachal Pradesh ranks best in literacy rate with 84%.

5.  The Net Attendance Rate of Bihar in 2006 is 56.

6.  The position of Punjab in 2011 with regard to literacy rate is next to Himachal Pradesh.

7.  Literacy rate is that the percentage of literate people in the 7 and above years age group.

8.  The children below the age of 6 do not go to school.

9.  Himachal Pradesh ranks first.

10. Bihar has high infant mortality rate i.e., 62. It has less literacy rate and Net attendance rate i.e., 64 and 56 respectively. Hence we can say Bihar is a backward state.