Question

The Indian Sugar Mills Association reported that, 'sugar production during the first fortnight of December, 2001 was about 3,87,000 tonnes, as against 3,78,000 tonnes during the same fortnight last year (2000). The off-take of sugar from factories during the first fortnight of December, 2001 was 2,83,000 tonnes for internal consumption and 41,000 tonnes for exports as against 1,54,000 tonnes for internal consumption and nil for exports during the same fortnight last season'.

(i) Present the data in tabular form.

(ii) Suppose you were to present these data in diagrammatic form which of the diagrams would you use and why?

(iii) Present these data diagrammatically.

Answer 1

(i) Data in tabular form.

Sugar Production in India

$\begin{array}{cccc}\text{Month, Year}& \text{Total Production}& \text{Off-take for Internal}& \text{Off-take for Exports}\\ & \text{(tonnes)}& \text{Consumption (tonnes)}& \text{(tonnes)}\\ \text{December 2000}& 3,78,000& 1,54,000& -\\ \text{December 2001}& 3,87,000& 2,83,000& 41,000\end{array}$

(ii) The data can effectively be presented diagrammatically using the multiple bar diagram. This is because multiple bar diagrams are used for comparing two or more sets of data for different years or classes, etc.