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Participation and Expenditure in Education, 2007-08
64th Round

India, 2007 - 2008
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Schedule 25.2
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Distance from nearest school - Secondary class (DIST_FROM_SEC_CLASS)

Data file: Block-3 Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 100181
Invalid: 400
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 65
End: 65
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Distance to nearest school having secondary level classes ( code )
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 d<1km 10668
10.6%
2 1km <= d <2kms 19293
19.3%
3 2kms<= d <3 kms 14305
14.3%
4 3kms<= d <5kms 44281
44.2%
5 d>=5kms 11634
11.6%
Sysmiss 400
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
To find the availability of a schools having primary, upper primary and a secondary level classes within a reasonable distance from the household, the convenient distance to the nearest such school from the household is to be ascertained in these items. It should be noted that here our objective is to capture the distance from the school having primary level /upper primary or middle level/secondary level classes and not from nearest primary/upper primary or middle /secondary level school, which may or may not be different. The distance to be covered by the usual way of transport in the normal course. The following codes are to be used for recording the distance (d):

d <1km : 1; 1km <= d < 2 kms : 2;
2km <= d < 3 kms : 3;
3kms<= d < 5 kms : 4;
d >=5 kms: 5;
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