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

Reference ID

Schedule 25.2

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Type of education (TYPE_OF_EDUCATION)
File: Block-7 Particulars of currently not attending persons aged 5-29 years

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-3

Valid cases: 76497
Invalid: 27679

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	general	74863	97.9%
2	professional/technical	1366	1.8%
3	vocational	268	0.4%
Sysmiss		27679

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

Depending on whether the last course attended was a general or technical/professional or vocational
course, code 1 or 2 or 3 will be entered against this item.
Education is broadly divided into three categories: (i) general education and (ii) technical and professional
education and (iii) vocational education. General education, in this survey, includes general school education from the primary to the higher secondary level, normal university education for a degree whereas technical/professional courses involve the hands on training in addition to theoretical classes. Education like Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Management, Chartered Accountancy, Cost Accountancy etc are examples of technical/ professional courses. The education which aims at imparting training in very specific fields through providing significant 'hands on' experience in acquiring necessary skill, which will make them employable or create for them opportunities of self employment and the degree/ diploma/ certificate awarded by the institute should have recognition by State/ Central Government/ public sector or similar employers are included under vocational education. Education offered by ITIs, polytechnics, etc. are examples of vocational courses.