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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No. of years of schooling (NO_YRS_OF_SCHOOLING)
File: BLOCK 7 Particulars of currently not attending persons...

Overview

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

Valid cases: 32495
Invalid: 33731
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 22
Mean: 8
Standard deviation: 3.4

Definition

total number of years spent in the school education including the higher secondary course which will be treated as part of school education .

Questions and instructions

Pre question

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

Literal question

no. of years of schooling

Categories

Value	Cases
0	132	0.4%
1	492	1.5%
2	990	3.0%
3	1700	5.2%
4	2249	6.9%
5	3675	11.3%
6	2376	7.3%
7	2823	8.7%
8	3541	10.9%
9	2412	7.4%
10	4954	15.2%
11	1970	6.1%
12	2592	8.0%
13	836	2.6%
14	575	1.8%
15	722	2.2%
16	236	0.7%
17	157	0.5%
18	49	0.2%
19	13	0.0%
22	1	0.0%
Sysmiss	33731

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

This refers to the total number of years spent in the school education including the higher secondary course which will be treated as part of school education . It is possible that a person had more years of schooling than the duration of the courses completed due to failures.