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

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;