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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Distance from nearest school - Secondary class (DIST_FROM_SEC_CLASS)
File: Block-3 Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0

Valid cases: 100181
Invalid: 400

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Distance to nearest school having secondary level classes ( code )

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	d<1km	10668	10.6%
2	1km <= d <2kms	19293	19.3%
3	2kms<= d <3 kms	14305	14.3%
4	3kms<= d <5kms	44281	44.2%
5	d>=5kms	11634	11.6%
Sysmiss		400

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

To find the availability of a schools having primary, upper primary and a secondary level classes within a reasonable distance from the household, the convenient distance to the nearest such school from the household is to be ascertained in these items. It should be noted that here our objective is to capture the distance from the school having primary level /upper primary or middle level/secondary level classes and not from nearest primary/upper primary or middle /secondary level school, which may or may not be different. The distance to be covered by the usual way of transport in the normal course. The following codes are to be used for recording the distance (d):

d <1km : 1; 1km <= d < 2 kms : 2;
2km <= d < 3 kms : 3;
3kms<= d < 5 kms : 4;
d >=5 kms: 5;