ANALYSIS OF LITERACY RATE WITH THE HELP OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

Atakan Aydoğar

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the possible causes of the literacy rate in the world and the levels of problems that may be caused in the regions where the literacy rate is low, with the help of general and local analyzes in the geographical information systems environment. The models created are to produce solutions or suggestions to increase the literacy rate and whether they differ according to the regions. Based on the human development index, comments were made by applying the least squares method and geographically weighted regression analysis separately for the countries examined in 4 groups low, medium, high, and very high levels. No meaningful models and results were obtained for the high-level country groups. Overall and local analyzes yielded significant results for very high, medium, and lower-level groups. The lowest literacy rate is seen in Africa and partially in the Asian region. Accordingly, it has been observed that GNI per capita is effective in countries with the lowest literacy rate in Africa. In the models obtained by the OLS method, the 𝐴𝑑𝑗𝑅2 value for the low-level group was 0.024, while this value was found to be 0.35 according to the GWR analysis. The 𝐴𝑑𝑗𝑅2 value for the medium-level group was determined as 0.049 as a result of the OLS method and as 0.062 as a result of the GWR analysis. For the very high-level group, the 𝐴𝑑𝑗𝑅2 value was found to be 0.1 as a result of the OLS method and 0.39 as a result of the GWR analysis.

Keywords

GIS, Literacy, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), Spatial analyse, Statistical analyse, Ordinary Least Squares Method(OLS)

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 17. 3. 2023

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 20. 5. 2024
• Vedúci: Ing. Jakub Konopásek, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Tomáš Benda, Ing.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme:
Informatics