AN INVESTIGATION ON THE LINKAGES BETWEEN POVERTY AND EDUCATION: A STATISTICAL REVIEW

Muhammad Yousaf Khan; Abdul Khaliq Alvi; Mazhar Farid Chishti

Muhammad Yousaf Khan Department of Statistics, Government Post Graduate College, Bahawalnagar
Abdul Khaliq Alvi Lahore Garrison University
Mazhar Farid Chishti The Garrison University Lahore (LGU), Pakistan

Keywords: Poverty Level, Education Level, Bawalnager, Pakistan

Abstract

The current research aimed to examine the relationship of education
and poverty (wealth index). The secondary data is utilized to find the
theoretical relationships among the research variables while statistical
procedures have been used to examine statistical relationships among
the variables. Tor this purpose, current research utilizes the following
tests likewise the correlation analysis, multiple comparison test and
Chi square to examine statistical connection and to reach conclusion.
In this regard, the results described that males attain more money as
compare to the females and education is more critical factor for the
elimination of poverty. The people who belong to middle and above
standard of the education are richer than the people of who belongs to
primary or below level. Moreover, the results indicate that uneducated
people are suffering lowest level of poverty. Results also describe that
difference of any two people who belongs to different group of the
education is wide the gape of the wealth indexes (reducing the poverty
level).