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Abstract
With the rapidly expending field of GIS, potential for the development of sophisticated socio-economic information systems and geo-demographic applications is the need of our. In Social GIS, the genuine problems related to data confidentiality like in natural resources and geographical locations of certain amenities/facilities is not that serious?

The inter-district spatial analysis of socio-demographic aspects in NCT of Delhi based on 2001 census data using Geographic Information System (GIS) – which allows spatially referenced information to be analsized and displayed as an important field of study.

The present case study area situated between the Himalayas and the Aravali ranges in the heart of the sub-continent and lies approximately between geo-coordinates of 76º 50' to 77º 21' E longitude and 28º 25' to 28º 53' N latitude, encompasses a total geographical area of about 1,483 sq. km. The boundaries of this region are surrounded by the state of Haryana on the north, west & south and by U.P. on the east separated by river Yamuna flowing in a north south direction.

In this paper district-wise distribution of workers and non-workers in respect of NCT Delhi by percentage a decadal (1991-2001) position of total workers, main workers, marginal workers and non-workers of total population by residence and sex and ranking of districts in dealt presented in maps. It is expected that such GIS exercise would be useful to a large section of people, government departments, non-governmental organizations, planners, policy makers , researchers and others.