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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Aug 26, 2015

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Age when dropped out (AGE_DROPPED_OUT)
File: BLOCK 7 Particulars of currently not attending persons...

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0

Valid cases: 18873
Invalid: 47353
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 24
Mean: 13.1
Standard deviation: 3.5

Definition

age at which dropped out.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

whether the desired level of education completed ?

Literal question

Age when dropped out ( years )

Categories

Value	Cases
0	4	0.0%
1	25	0.1%
2	16	0.1%
3	14	0.1%
4	11	0.1%
5	78	0.4%
6	261	1.4%
7	548	2.9%
8	991	5.3%
9	1201	6.4%
10	1598	8.5%
11	1411	7.5%
12	1877	9.9%
13	1684	8.9%
14	1874	9.9%
15	2282	12.1%
16	1892	10.0%
17	1260	6.7%
18	910	4.8%
19	391	2.1%
20	323	1.7%
21	127	0.7%
22	72	0.4%
23	21	0.1%
24	2	0.0%
Sysmiss	47353

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

A person is treated as dropped out when he/she has not successfully completed that particular level. The age in completed years when the person dropped out is to be recorded in this item.