India - Social Consumption - Education Survey: NSS 71st Round, Schedule 25.2 , January 2014 -June 2014

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-71st-Sch25dot2-2014

Year

2014

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Medium of Instruction (medium_instruction)
File: Block-5 - Level-05 education particulars on basic course

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-29

Valid cases: 93513
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 29
Mean: 4.5
Standard deviation: 6.2

Definition

Medium of instruction for a course is the language used in teaching the course. Whenever, more than one medium of instruction is used, the one through which majority of the subjects are taught is recorded.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hindi	29288	31.3%
2	English	37882	40.5%
3	Assamese	1959	2.1%
4	Bengali	5947	6.4%
5	Bodo	52	0.1%
6	Dogri	4	0.0%
7	Gujrati	3296	3.5%
8	Kannada	1826	2.0%
10	Kashmiri	26	0.0%
11	Konkani	4	0.0%
12	Maithili	43	0.0%
13	Malayalam	1043	1.1%
14	Manipuri	127	0.1%
15	Marathi	3869	4.1%
16	Nepali	25	0.0%
17	Oriya	2158	2.3%
18	Punjabi	808	0.9%
20	Sanskrit	16	0.0%
21	Santhali	0	0.0%
22	Sindhi	3	0.0%
23	Tamil	2305	2.5%
24	Telugu	1746	1.9%
25	Urdu	695	0.7%
29	Others	391	0.4%

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.