India - Social Consumption - Education Survey: NSS 71st Round, Schedule 25.2 , January 2014 -June 2014

2015-07-16

This schedule is designed to collect the information on (a) participation of persons aged 5-29 years in the pursuit of education, (b) private expenditure incurred on the education of household members including those who are resident of Students' hostel at the time of survey, (c) examining the extent of educational wastage and their causes in terms of dropout and discontinuance and (d) IT literacy of persons aged 14 years and above. However, inclusions and exclusions, in a nutshell, are mentioned below.

Inclusions:

I.School education commencing from class I to X or XII, as the case may be, irrespective of the recognition status of the educational institution,

II.Higher secondary / Pre-university education leading to award of certificate/ diploma/ degree etc. including enrolment in private unrecognised institutions, which are authorised to sponsor students for public examinations as private or external candidates,

III.General University education in Universities which are recognised by University Grant Commission(UGC),

IV.Correspondence or distance learning courses conducted by Universities, Deemed Universities or Institutions, authorised by competent authorities for awarding regular degrees or diplomas or certificates,

V.Technical or Professional courses, conducted by Universities, Deemed Universities or institutes like, National Institute of Fashion Technology, National School of Drama, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Film and Television Institute of India, Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, etc. or Institutions, authorised by competent authorities like All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Medical Council of India (MCI), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Actuarial Society of India, etc., leading to award of degree/diploma/certificates

VI.All types of courses of duration three months or more, conducted by Institutions like Industrial Training Institute (ITI), National Vocational Training Institute, Regional Vocational Training Institutes, etc., authorised by competent authorities

VII.Any course at primary level and above conducted by recognised educational institution not covered above.

Exclusions:

I.Art, music and similar type of courses conducted by individuals in their houses or by unrecognised/ unaffiliated institutions,

II.Classes taken by Private tutors,

III.Education in nursery/Kindergartens/Preparatory levels except for their enrolment statuses and dropout / discontinuance statuses .

IV.The non-formal system of education being implemented through various programmes by government or other agencies except for their enrolment statuses and discontinuance / dropout statuses.

Summary description of the schedule: In the present round, Schedule 25.2 on education and IT literacy consists of 10 blocks. The first three blocks, viz., Block 0, Block 1 and Block 2 have used for recording identification of sample households and particulars of field operations, as practised in previous rounds. The last two blocks, viz., Block 8 and Block 9 have used to record the remarks/comments of investigator and supervisory officer(s) respectively. Block 3 is used for recording the household characteristics like household size, principal industry and principal occupation of household, household type, religion, social group, distance from nearest school having primary/upper primary/secondary level classes, whether the household has a computer/ any access to internet and household's usual consumer expenditure in a month etc. Block 4 is used for recording the demographic and other particulars of all the household members satisfying the modified definition of household. Particulars of IT literacy for household members aged 14 & above and the particulars of current educational attendance and current enrolment status for household member aged 5-29 years are also collected in Block 4. The education particulars of the household members, aged 5 years to 29 years, who are currently attending educational institutions at primary level and above are recorded in Block 5. In this block, information on course, level, class/grade/year, type of institution, medium of instruction, etc., are collected on basic course. Block 6 is designed to collect particulars of private expenditure on education of the household members, whose educational particulars are collected in block 5. Here, the break-up of expenditure of the basic course of each such member is collected in detail. Particulars of household members, aged 5 years to 29 years, who are currently not attending any educational institution, are collected in Block 7. In this block, information like whether ever enrolled, age at entry in school, age of discontinuation / dropping, etc. have also recorded. Sample survey data [ssd]

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household