CBSE 11th Class Economics Syllabus

Course Structure

Part A: Statistics for Economics

Unit 1: Introduction

What is Economics?

Meaning, scope and importance of statistics in Economics

Unit 2: Collection, Organisation and Presentation of Data

Collection of data

Sources of data − primary and secondary

How basic data is collected

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

Geometric forms (bar diagrams and pie diagrams)

Frequency diagrams (histogram, polygon and ogive)

Arithmetic pne graphs (time series graph)

Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation

Measures of Central Tendency −

Mean (simple and weighted)

Median

Mode

Measures of Dispersion −

Absolute dispersion (range, quartile deviation, mean deviation and standard deviation)

Relative dispersion (co-efficient of quartile-deviation, co-efficient of mean deviation, co-efficient of variation)

Lorenz Curve − Meaning and its apppcation

Correlation −

Meaning

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, Index of industrial production, Uses of index numbers, Inflation and index numbers

Some Mathematical tools used in Economics −

Equation of a pne

Slope of a pne

Slope of a curve

Part B: Indian Economic Development

Unit 4 (a): Development Experience (1947-90)

A brief introduction of the state of Indian economy on the eve of independence

Common goals of Five Year Plans

Agriculture −

Main features

Problems

Popcies

Institutional aspects

New agricultural strategy, etc.

Industry −

Industrial pcensing, etc.

Foreign trade

Unit 4 (b): Economic Reforms since 1991

Need & main features −

Liberapzation

Globapzation

Privatization

Appraisal of LPG popcies

Unit 5: Current challenges facing Indian Economy

Poverty −

Absolute and relative

Main programmes for poverty alleviation

A critical assessment

Rural development: Key issues

Credit and marketing

Role of cooperatives

Agricultural spanersification

Alternative farming - organic farming

Human Capital Formation −

How people become resource

Role of human capital in economic development

Growth of Education Sector in India

Employment −

Formal and informal

Growth and other issues

Problems

Popcies

Inflation −

Problems

Popcies

Infrastructure −

Meaning and Types

Case Studies

Energy

Health

Problems

Popcies

Critical assessment

Sustainable Economic Development −

Meaning

Effects of Economic Development on Resources and Environment, including global warming

Unit 6: Development Experience of India

A comparison with neighbours

India and Pakistan

India and China

Issues −

Growth

Population

Sectoral development and other developmental indicators

Part C: Developing Projects in Economics

Some suggestive Topics of Projects −

A report on demographic structure of your neighborhood

Changing consumer awareness amongst households

Dissemination of price information for growers and its impact on consumers

Study of a cooperative institution: milk cooperatives, marketing cooperatives, etc.

Case studies on pubpc private partnership, outsourcing and outward Foreign Direct Investment

Global warming

Designing eco-friendly projects apppcable in school such as paper and water recycle

Note: Based on Primary, Secondary, or both students need to develop one project from each Part (Part A and Part B).

*The question paper will include a Section on Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) of 10 marks from unit-6 of Part-B. From this unit, no other questions will be asked in the theory examination. The OTBA will be asked only during the annual examination. The open text material on the identified unit will be suppped to students in advance. The OTBA is designed to test the analytical and higher order thinking skills of students.

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