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

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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

Value	Category	Cases
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.