  This paper reports a comprehensive study of distributional uncertainty in a
few socio-economic indicators across the various states of India over the years
2001-2011. We show that the DGB distribution, a typical rank order
distribution, provide excellent fits to the district-wise empirical data for
the population size, literacy rate (LR) and work participation rate (WPR)
within every states in India, through its two distributional parameters.
Moreover, taking resort to the entropy formulation of the DGB distribution, a
proposed uncertainty percentage (UP) unveils the dynamics of the uncertainty of
LR and WPR in all states of India. We have also commented on the changes in the
estimated parameters and the UP values from the years 2001 to 2011.
Additionally, a gender based analysis of the distribution of these important
socio-economic variables within different states of India has also been
discussed. Interestingly, it has been observed that, although the distributions
of the numbers of literate and working people has a direct (linear)
correspondence with that of the population size, the literacy and
work-participation rates are distributed independently of the population
distributions.
