APPSC Assistant Statistical Officer Question Paper

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The Question Paper of APPSC Assistant Statistical Officer in A.P Economics & Statistical Sub Service is as follows:

APPSC: Assistant Statistical Officers in A.P Economics & Statistical Sub Service







SYLLABUS
Economics
I. 1. National Economic Accounting, National Income Analysis Generation and Distribution of Income and related aggregates: Gross National Product, Net National Product, Gross Domestic Product & Net Domestic Product(at market prices and factor costs): at constant and current prices.
2. Price Theory: Law of Demand: Utility analysis and Indifference Curve techniques, Consumer equilibrium, Cost curves and their relationships; equilibrium of a firm under different market structures; pricing of factors of Production.
3. Money and Banking: Definitions and functions of money (M1, M2 M3): Credit creation; Credit; Sources, Costs and availability; theories of the Demand for money.
4. International Trade: The theory of comparative costs; Recardian Hockseher Ohlin; the balance of payments and the adjustment mechanism. Trade theory and economic growth and development.
5. Economic growth and development; Meaning and measurement; characteristics of under development; rate and pattern, Modern Growth; Sources of growth distribution and growth-problems of growth of developing economics.

II. Indian Economy- India’s economy since Independence; trends in population growth since 1951, Population and poverty; general trends in National Income and related aggregates; Planning in India Objectives, Strategy and rate and pattern of growth; problems of Industrialization strategy; Agricultural growth since Independence with special reference to food grains; unemployment; nature of the problem and possible solution, Public Finance and Economic Policy.

III. Identification of backward regions and the problems of regional development with special reference to Andhra Pradesh.

Basic Statistics - Elementary Statistical Methods
Origin and Development of Statistics - Definition of Statistics - Importance and scope of Statistics - Limitations of Statistics - Distrast of Statistics - Collection of data - Census Vs. sample enumeration - Primary and Secondary sources of data – Preparation of schedules and questionnaires - Classification and tabulation of data - Presentation of data - Frequency distributions. Measures of Central Tendency - Requisites for an ideal measure central tendency / Mean, Median and Mode for grouped and ungrouped data - Measures of Dispersion - Range - Quratile Deviation - Mean Deviation - Standard Deviation -
Skewness and Kurtosis. Correlation - Scatter Diagram - Karlpearson's Co-efficient of Correlation - Rank Correlation - Regression - Lines of regression - Regression Coefficients - Simple Random Sampling - Stratified Sampling - Sampling and Non-sampling Errors. Index Numbers - Construction of Index Numbers - Fixed base and Chain base -Cost of living index numbers by aggregate expenditure method - Family budget methods - Fisher's Indeal Index - Time reversal and facts reversal tests.

Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Data
Awareness and Appreciation of data relating to different sectors of economy. Identification of trends and interpretation of data over time and space. Drawing inferences based on the trends reflected by the data - Representation of data through diagrams and graphs - Statistical Analysis of data with simple statistical measure.