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

Reference ID

IND-MOSPI-NSSO-NSS-52-25.2-1995-V2.

Year

1995 - 1996

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 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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For general education : Level (LVL_EDUCATION)
File: BLOCK 4 Education particulars...

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 92311
Invalid: 0

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.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Course (code)

Literal question

For general education : Level

Post question

class / year of study

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
00		185	0.2%
01	not literate	0	0.0%
02	literate : without formal schooling	0	0.0%
03	below primary	1	0.0%
04	primary	39912	43.2%
05	middle	26989	29.2%
06	secondary	15018	16.3%
07	higher secondary	5943	6.4%
08	diploma/certificarte course	608	0.7%
09	graduate	3211	3.5%
10	post graduate & above	444	0.5%

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 for which the person is currently enrolled will be coded as per the codes for level of education as given in block 3. These are again given for easy reference.

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

The codes 1, 2 and 3 will not be applicable for this item as the coverage for this block will be only primary and post primary education.