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socio-economic development have experienced high
average RTI of 30.96 per thousand per year which
correspondingly decreased to 21.58 and 12.76 in
moderate and low category, respectively. Thus it
may be concluded that there exists a positive
relationship between levels of socio-economic development
and RTI.
This relationship has emerged
mainly because of the positive relationship of both
the components of total increase i.e., RNI and RNM
with levels of socio-economic development. Similarly,
as expected population density is also positively
associated with the levels of socio-economic development.
The average population density is highest
with 266.59 persons per sq.km. in high category and
lowest with 67.06 in low category, moderate category
with 151.45 falling in between.
With respect to Factor 2 similar patterns
could be observed as observed above in the case of
Factor 1. The results are very much close to each
other (Table 8.4). It should be emphasized here
that Factor 2 represents the dimension of agricultural
development.
The findings that we have
obtained thus reinforce our earlier findings in
Chapter Six.