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 at entry at school (AGE_AT_SCHOOL_ENTRY)
File: BLOCK 7 Particulars of currently not attending persons...

Overview

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

Valid cases: 32455
Invalid: 33771
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 16
Mean: 5.7
Standard deviation: 0.9

Definition

age at which the person started formal education

Questions and instructions

Pre question

ever enrolled ? (1-yes, 2-no)

Literal question

Age at entry at school ( years )

Categories

Value	Cases
0	3	0.0%
1	6	0.0%
2	5	0.0%
3	81	0.2%
4	517	1.6%
5	14429	44.5%
6	13125	40.4%
7	3071	9.5%
8	897	2.8%
9	182	0.6%
10	93	0.3%
11	13	0.0%
12	17	0.1%
13	6	0.0%
14	2	0.0%
15	6	0.0%
16	2	0.0%
Sysmiss	33771

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 completed age at which the person got admitted to the school is to be entered in this item.