India - Housing Condition and Migration Survey: NSS 49th Round, Schedule 1.2, January - June 1993

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

Year

1993

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Education Level (code) (B4_q7)
File: Block-4-Persons-Demographic and migration particulars-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 596712
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Educational level (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not literate	267557	44.8%
1	Literate without formal schooling	8101	1.4%
2	Literate but below primary	87693	14.7%
3	Primary	86644	14.5%
4	Middle	67279	11.3%
5	Secondary	41883	7.0%
6	Higher secondary	18696	3.1%
7	Graduate and above	18750	3.1%
9	Invalid	109	0.0%

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

Educational level here refers to only the general education standard of the member of the household. For a person who has attended educational institutions or qualified in educational courses, the standard will be ascertained on the basis of the course successfully completed. Merely having studies up to a level, say BA., will not be enough. He/she should have completed the BA.. course successfully to be treated as graduate. For this column, one will be considered literate if he / she can `read and write a simple sentence in any language. Primary level signifies classes I-IV or I-V as per the local practice. Classes V/VI to VII will be middle. Classes VIII to X will be secondary and XI to XII or equivalent course will be higher secondary. The educational level will be entered in codes