Participation in India : An Analysis of NSS 64th Round Data
The significance of secondary education emerges from its critical role in promoting economic growth by determining the quality of those who enter labor market after schooling as well as those who pursue higher education. Secondary education is also...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/616081468042009170/Participation-in-India-an-analysis-of-NSS-64th-round-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27418 |
| Summary: | The significance of secondary education
emerges from its critical role in promoting economic growth
by determining the quality of those who enter labor market
after schooling as well as those who pursue higher
education. Secondary education is also important due to the
positive externalities on promoting health, social cohesion
and sustainable livelihood. Secondary education is
undeniably the crucial stage in any education system, as it
is in this stage that the elementary school graduates get
their basic skills cemented and gain competencies that
prepare them to enter either into higher education or into
labor market. This analytical report presents the status of
secondary education participation the participation in India
using National Sample Survey (NSS) 64th round (2007-08). The
specific objectives of this policy note are: a) the
participation rates of adolescents in secondary education,
disaggregated by gender, social and religious groups,
household economic quintiles and different locations (rural
or urban as well as across states) in India using NSS 64th
round (2007-08); b) the transition patterns from elementary
to secondary stage and dropouts in between, disaggregated;
and c) the proportion of population who had secondary
education; and participation in secondary education by type
of management of schools. This policy note is organized in
the following way. In the first section, a brief account of
the secondary education scenario in the country is provided.
In the second section, overall secondary education
participation is analyzed. In section three, an analysis of
gender and social or religious gaps in secondary education
participation is taken up. |
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