India - Participation and Expenditure in Education: NSS 64th Round, Schedule 25.2, July 2007 - June 2008

Start	End	Cycle
2007-07-01	2008-06-30	N/A

Start	End	Cycle
2007-07-01		4

Face-to-face [f2f]In the present round, Schedule 25.2 on participation and expenditure in education consists of 10 blocks. The first three blocks, viz., Block 0, Block 1 and Block 2 were used for recording identification of sample households and particulars of field operations, as practiced in previous rounds. The last three blocks, viz., Block 8, Block 9 and Block 10 were used to record the remarks of investigator/senior investigator, superintendent/senior superintendent and other supervisory officer respectively. Block 3 was for recording the household characteristics like household size, principal industry, principal occupation, household type, religion, social group, land possessed, details of household expenditure for dependants studying away from home, distance from nearest school having primary/upper primary/secondary level classes and five questions for capturing household consumption expenditure etc. Block 4 was used for recording the demographic and other particulars of all the household members. Particulars of current educational attendance and current enrolment status for household member aged 5-29 years was also collected in Block 4. The education particulars of the household members, aged 5 years to 29 years, who were currently attending educational institutions at primary level and above were recorded in Block 5. In this block, information on course, level, class/grade/year, type of institution, medium of instruction, etc., were collected for at most two courses. Block 6 was designed to collect particulars of private expenditure for the household members, whose educational particulars were collected in block 5. Here, the break-up of expenditure in detail of the basic course of each such member was collected along with the aggregate expenditure of the second course and all other courses (taken together), if any. Particulars of household members, aged 5 years to 29 years, who were currently not attending any educational institution, were collected in Block 7. In this block, information like whether ever enrolled, age at entry in school, age of discontinuation / dropping, etc. were recorded.

In a nutshell, the schedule consists of the following blocks:

Block 0: Descriptive identification of sample household
Block 1 : Identification of sample household
Block 2: Particulars of field operations.
Block 3 : Household characteristics
Block 4 : Demographic and other particulars of household members
Block 5: Education particulars of those aged 5-29 years who are currently attending at primary level and above
Block 6: Particulars of the private expenditure for those aged 5-29 years, who are currently attending at primary level and above
Block 7 : Particulars of currently not attending persons in the age group 5-29 years
Block 8: Remarks by investigator/senior investigator
Block 9 : Remarks by superintendent/ senior superintendent
Block 10: Remarks by other supervisory officer

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National sample survey Office	NSSO	Ministry of planning &f Programme Implementation