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Participation in Education, July 1995 - July 1996
NSS 52nd Round

India, 1995 - 1996
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IND-MOSPI-NSSO-NSS-52-25.2-1995-V2.
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Level code (LEVEL_CODE)

Data file: BLOCK 7 Particulars of currently not attending persons...

Overview

Valid: 66226
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 37
End: 38
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
type of education
Literal question
level ( code )
Categories
Value Category Cases
00 30963
46.8%
01 not literate 117
0.2%
02 literate : without formal schooling 41
0.1%
03 below primary 1050
1.6%
04 primary 9332
14.1%
05 middle 9327
14.1%
06 secondary 9691
14.6%
07 higher secondary 3472
5.2%
08 diploma/certificarte course 679
1%
09 graduate 1173
1.8%
10 post graduate & above 381
0.6%
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
The level of the course the person last attended will be coded as per the codes for level of education

01 not literate
02 literate : without formal schooling
03 below primary
04 primary
05 middle
06 secondary
07 higher secondary
08 diploma/certificarte course
09 graduate
10 post graduate & above

The codes 1 and 2 will not be applicable for this item. The level of education of the last course attended will not necessarily match with the corresponding entry in block 3.
Question post text
whether completed the level of education

Description

Definition
It refers to the different stages of educational attainment.
The levels are (i) not literate, (ii) literate without formal schooling, (iii) below primary, (iv) primary, (v) middle, (vi) secondary, (vii) higher secondary, (viii) diploma/ certificate, (ix) graduate, and, (x) postgraduate and above. It may be noted that if a person has successfully passed the final year of a given level, then and only then will he/she be considered to have attained that level of education. For example, the level attained by a person studying in Class IX will be middle but the level at which he/she is currently studying is secondary.
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