CAT 1999 — DILR Question 45
Directions: Answer the questions based on the following information.
The table below presents data on percentage population covered by drinking water and sanitation facilities in selected Asian countries.
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Country A is said to dominate B or A > B if A has higher percentage in total coverage for both drinking water and sanitation facilities, and, B is said to be dominated by A, or B < A.
A country is said to be on the coverage frontier if no other country dominates it. Similarly, a country is not on the coverage frontier if it is dominated by at least one other country.
Additional direction: These relate to the above table with the additional provision that the gap between the population coverages of ‘sanitation facilities’ and ‘drinking water facilities’ is a measure of disparity in coverage.
The country with the least disparity in coverage of urban sector is
Answer & solution
- A
India
- B
Pakistan
Philippines
- D
None of these
The disparity for the coverage of rural sector is as follows.
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Disparity = (Percentage denoting drinking facilities coverage – Percentage denoting sanitation coverage),
For example, rural sector of India = 79 – 14= 65%
Thus, as it can be seen from the table, in rural sector the country with most disparity is India (79 – 14) = 65%.
And the country with least disparity in urban sector is Philippines (92 – 88) = 4%