Participation in India

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Sankar, Deepa
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2011-01
Subjects:	ACADEMIC YEAR, ACCESS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION, ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS, ADOLESCENT BOY, ADOLESCENTS, ADULT POPULATION, ADULTS, AGE GROUP, ATTENDANCE RATES, ATTENDING SCHOOL, BASIC SKILLS, CENSUS DATA, COMPLETION RATES, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DISTANCE TO SCHOOL, DROPOUT, DROPOUT RATE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC STATUS, EDUCATION CYCLE, EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, EDUCATION LEVEL, EDUCATION LEVELS, EDUCATION MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION PLANNING, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION STATISTICS, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, ELEMENTARY CYCLE, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ENROLMENT FIGURES, EQUITABLE ACCESS, FAMILY MEMBERS, FAMILY WELFARE, FIRST GRADE, GAP BETWEEN BOYS, GENDER DISPARITIES, GENDER DISPARITY, GENDER GAPS, GIRLS, GIRLS ATTENDING SCHOOLS, GROSS COMPLETION RATE, GROSS ENROLMENT, GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO, GROSS ENROLMENT RATIOS, HIGHER EDUCATION, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVING ACCESS, INEQUITIES, INFANT, INFORMATION SYSTEM, JUNIOR SECONDARY, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKETS, LACK OF INFORMATION, LEGAL STATUS, LET, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, LOW FERTILITY, LOWER SECONDARY LEVEL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, MINORITY, MINORITY GROUPS, NATIONAL COUNCIL, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL POLICY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, NET ENROLMENT, NET ENROLMENT RATIO, NET ENROLMENT RATIOS, NUMBER OF ADOLESCENTS, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, NUMBER OF ENROLMENTS, NUMBER OF PERSONS, NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, NUMBER OF STUDENTS, OLDER AGE GROUPS, OPEN SCHOOL, OPEN SCHOOLS, PAPERS, PARENTAL EDUCATION, PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION, POLICY DECISIONS, POPULATION CENSUS, POPULATION GROUPS, POPULATION GROWTH RATE, POPULATION PROJECTIONS, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY ENROLMENTS, PRIMARY GRADES, PRIMARY LEVEL, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOL, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE UNAIDED SCHOOLS, PROGRESS, QUALITY EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS GROUPS, RELIGIOUS MINORITIES, REPEATERS, REPETITION, REPETITION RATE, RESPECT, RETENTION RATES, RURAL AREAS, SCHOOL CENSUS, SCHOOL COMPLETION, SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOL FACILITIES, SCHOOL GRADUATES, SCHOOL IMPACTS, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, SCHOOL MAPPING, SCHOOL PARTICIPATION, SCHOOL STUDENTS, SCHOOL SURVEYS, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOLING, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY ENROLMENTS, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SENIOR SECONDARY LEVEL, SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SEX, SEX RATIO, SEX RATIOS, SOCIAL COHESION, SOCIAL DIFFERENCES, SOCIAL DIMENSIONS, SOCIAL GROUP, SOCIAL GROUPS, STATE GOVERNMENTS, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, TRENDS IN POPULATION GROWTH, UNEMPLOYMENT, UPPER PRIMARY, URBAN AREAS, URBAN STUDENTS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/616081468042009170/Participation-in-India-an-analysis-of-NSS-64th-round-data https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27418
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