India - Participation in Education: 52nd Round, Schedule 25.2, July 1995 - July 1996

Reference ID

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

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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For general education : course (COURSE)
File: BLOCK 4 Education particulars...

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 92311
Invalid: 0

Definition

The course indicates the broad subject for which the person is currently enrolled

Questions and instructions

Pre question

type of current education

Literal question

For general education : course

Post question

level of course

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		184	0.2%
1	general course	84484	91.5%
2	arts/humanities	3675	4.0%
3	science	1781	1.9%
4	commerce	1079	1.2%
5	medicine	104	0.1%
6	engineering	229	0.2%
7	agriculture	22	0.0%
8		1	0.0%
9	others	752	0.8%

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 course indicates the broad subject for which the person is currently enrolled. These are coded as follows :

General course -1
Arts/humanities -2
Science -3
Commerce -4
Medicine -5
Engineering -6
Agriculture -7
Other -9

For school education upto class X for which generally no specialisation is available code 1 will be given. After class X the courses can be coded according to the broad classification as above.