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

MoSPI-NSS
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
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Level code (LEVEL_CODE)
File: BLOCK 7 Particulars of currently not attending persons...
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2
Valid cases: 66226
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
type of education
Literal question
level ( code )
Post question
whether completed the level of education
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
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 1.0%
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.

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