Table 1.

State-level variations in Adult Height and Education

			Punjab	Rajasthan	Karnataka	Kerala	F-stat4	ALL
Height		Men	167.9	164.4	163.8	163.7		164.5
(all ages)		Women	155.1	153.1	151.1	150.5		152.0
		(men - women)	12.8a	11.5a	12.7a	13.2a	1.29	12.5
Log height		(men – women)	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	1.56	0.1
1960–61 Per capita consumption (2004–05 Rs/month)1		Urban	83.7	66.6	72.1	53.6		NA
		Rural	82.1	55.7	59.2	46.6		NA
Child sex ratio (girls per 1,000 boys aged 0–6)2			798	909	946	960		927
Caste		scheduled caste	33.5	9.7	16.5	7.4		14.5
		scheduled tribe	0.0	35.2	8.9	0.0		13.8
		other backwards caste	11.6	28.5	59.2	42.9		39.5
		non/other caste	54.9	26.6	15.5	49.7		32.2
Parents' education	years of schooling	Father	0.4	0.5	1.4	3.4		1.4
		Mother	0.0	0.1	0.5	2.6		0.7
		(father - mother)	0.4a	0.4a,b	1.0c	0.8b,c	4.40**	0.7
	literacy	Father	6.0	7.7	21.1	67.5		25.9
		Mother	1.9	2.6	10.2	54.1		16.8
		(father – mother)	4.1a	4.8a	11.7b	13.7b	5.81***	9.1
		(father/mother)	3.2	2.8	2.1	1.3		1.5
Education	years of schooling	Men	4.2	2.8	5.6	8.4		5.1
		Women	2.1	1.0	3.0	7.6		3.4
		(men - women)	2.1a	1.7a,b	2.9a	0.9b	6.11**	1.7
	literacy rate	Men	50.8	28.7	62.4	96.7		57.3
		Women	27.5	12.6	36.8	83.2		40.8
		(men – women)	22.7a,b	15.9a,b	25.9a	14.6b	1.94	16.5
		(men/women)	1.8	2.3	1.7	1.2		1.4
Children's education (among age 15+)	years of schooling	Son	8.2	5.1	8.7	11.9		9.2
		Daughter	7.8	3.5	7.7	12.6		8.7
		(son - daughter)	0.4a	1.6b	1.0b	−0.7c	10.57***	0.5
	literacy rate	Son	83.3	52.0	77.6	98.8		75.0
		Daughter	81.6	35.7	77.2	98.9		72.5
		(son – daughter)	1.7a	16.3b	0.4a,c	−0.1c	10.43***	2.5
		(son/daughter)	1.0	1.5	1.0	1.0	9.79***	1.0

¹Source: Datt (1998)

²Source: The 2001 Census of India

³All other data are age-adjusted estimates from 2010 LASI

⁴F-stat tests whether gender difference in cognition varies across the states

⁵The different alphabets (a, b, c) indicate statistically difference in pair-wise test of gender difference across the states.