Part A: Statistics for Economics
In this course, the learners are expected to acquire skills in collection, organisation and
presentation of quantitative and qualitative information pertaining to various simple
economic aspects systematically. It also intends to provide some basic statistical tools
to analyse, and interpret any economic information and draw appropriate inferences. In
this process, the learners are also expected to understand the behaviour of various
economic data.

Unit 1: Introduction 10 Periods
What is Economics?
Meaning, scope, functions and importance of statistics in Economics
Unit 2: Collection, Organisation and Presentation of data 30 Periods
Collection of data – sources of data – primary and secondary; how basic data is
collected with concepts of Sampling; methods of collecting data; some important
sources of secondary data: Census of India and National Sample Survey Organisation.
Organisation of Data: Meaning and types of variables; Frequency Distribution.

Presentation of Data: Tabular Presentation and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data:i) Geometric forms (bar diagrams and pie diagrams), (ii) Frequency diagrams,histogram, polygon and Ogive) and (iii) Arithmetic line graphs (time series graph).

Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation                                                                  50 Periods
For all the numerical problems and solutions, the appropriate economic interpretation may be
attempted. This means, the students need to solve the problems and provide interpretation for
the results derived

Measures of Central Tendency- Arithmetic mean, median and mode

Correlation – meaning and properties, scatter diagram; Measures of correlation – Karl
Pearson’s method (two variables ungrouped data) Spearman’s rank correlation.

Introduction to Index Numbers – meaning, types – wholesale price index, consumer price
index and index of industrial production, uses of index numbers; Inflation and index numbers.

Part B: Introductory Microeconomics

Unit 4: Introduction 10 Periods

Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics; positive and normative economics.

What is an economy? Central problems of an economy: what, how and for whom to
produce; concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

Unit 5: Consumer’s Equilibrium and Demand 40 Periods
Consumer’s equilibrium – meaning of utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal
utility, conditions of consumer’s equilibrium using marginal utility analysis.
Indifference curve analysis of consumer’s equilibrium-the consumer’s budget (budget
set and budget line), preferences of the consumer (indifference curve, indifference
map) and conditions of consumer’s equilibrium.
Demand, market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve
and its slope, movement along and shifts in the demand curve; price elasticity of
demand – factors affecting price elasticity of demand; measurement of price elasticity of
demand – percentage-change method and total expenditure method.

Unit 6: Producer Behaviour and Supply 35 Periods
Meaning of Production Function – Short-Run and Long-Run
Total Product, Average Product and Marginal Product.
Returns to a Factor
Cost: Short run costs – total cost, total fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost;
Average fixed cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-meaning and their
relationships.
Revenue – total, average and marginal revenue – meaning and their relationship.
Producer’s equilibrium-meaning and its conditions in terms of marginal revenuemarginal cost. Supply, market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply
curve and its slope, movements along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of
supply; measurement of price elasticity of supply – percentage-change method.

Unit 7: Forms of Market and Price Determination under Perfect Competition with simple
application.                                                                                                                      25 Periods
Perfect competition – Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of
shifts in demand and supply.
Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.

Part C: Project in Economics 20 Periods
Guidelines as given in class XII curriculum