Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2015, 3, 130-137 Published Online February 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jss http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.32017 How to cite this paper: Qasem, M.A.N., Govil, P. and Gupta, S. (2015) A Comparative Study of the Levels of Statistical Com- petency among Post-Graduate Students of the Universities of Yemen and India. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 130-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.32017 A Comparative Study of the Levels of Statistical Competency among Post-Graduate Students of the Universities of Yemen and India Mamun Ali Naji Qasem 1 , Punita Govil 2 , Swati Gupta 2 1 Faculty of Education, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen 2 Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Email: mamonbnaa@gmail.com , punita_govil@rediffmail.com , swt21gupta@gmail.com Received 21 January 2015; accepted 9 February 2015; published 13 February 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The present study has been undertaken to evaluate the level of statistical competency of the post-graduate students belonging to the Faculty of Education in the Universities of Yemen and India. A standardized test prepared by the researchers has been used to assess the level of sta- tistical competency of students. The study reveals that 1) The level of statistical competency of the post-graduate students belonging to the Faculty of Education in Universities of Yemen is av- erage. 2) The level of statistical competency of the post-graduate students belonging to the Fa- culty of Education in Indian Universities is less than average. 3) The level of statistical compe- tency of Yemeni post-graduate students is significantly higher than their counterparts of India. 4) There is a significant difference between male and female post-graduate students in the level of statistical competency. The male post-graduate students are better than female post-graduate students. Keywords Statistics, Statistical Competency, Parametric & Non-Parametric Statistics 1. Introduction Statistics plays a major role in scientific research. In other words, by using appropriate statistical tools, a re-