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

Reference ID

Schedule 25.2

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Is education free (IS_EDU_FREE)
File: Block-5 Education particulars of those aged 5-29 years who are currently attending primary level and above

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-2

Valid cases: 94524
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	56477	59.7%
2	No	38047	40.3%

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

Tuition fee is generally not charged in Govt. schools in most of the states and also in private schools in some
of the states upto certain level of education. There are some schools where students are not required to pay
tuition fee. Nevertheless, a fixed some of money is to be paid such as development fee, library fee.
Education in such schools should be considered as free. This item is applicable to the institution as a whole
and not to the specific situation obtaining for the student.