INDIA RURAL

ALL ANALYSIS BASED ON DATA FROM 575 OUT OF 583 DISTRICTS

School enrollment and out of school children

Table 1: % Children in different types of % Out of Chart 1: Trends over time

schools 2009 school % Children out of school by age group and gender 2006-2009
Total
Not in
Age group Govt. Pvt. Other
School

Age: 6 -14 ALL 73.0 21.8 1.2 4.0 100

Age: 7-16 ALL 70.4 22.2 1.1 6.3 100
Age: 7-10 ALL 75.6 20.5 1.3 2.6 100
Age: 7-10 BOYS 74.3 22.1 1.2 2.4 100
Age: 7-10 GIRLS 77.2 18.5 1.4 2.9 100
Age: 11-14 ALL 70.0 23.0 1.0 6.0 100
Age: 11-14 BOYS 69.4 24.4 0.9 5.3 100
Age: 11-14 GIRLS 70.9 21.2 1.1 6.8 100
Age: 15-16 ALL 56.9 24.9 0.8 17.4 100
Age: 15-16 BOYS 57.1 25.3 0.8 16.8 100
Age: 15-16 GIRLS 57.0 24.4 0.8 17.8 100
note : 'OTHER' includes chidren going to madarssa and EGS.
‘NOT IN SCHOOL’ = dropped out + never enrolled.

Chart 2: Trends over time Table 2: Sample description

% Children age 6-14 enrolled in pvt. school 2006-2009 % Children in each class by age 2009

Std. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

I 23.2 46.4 17.2 7.6 5.6 100

II 3.0 13.5 38.6 29.4 6.6 5.3 3.7 100

III 3.5 10.7 42.2 24.6 11.4 2.7 4.9 100

IV 3.8 12.6 34.0 33.1 6.5 6.2 3.9 100

V 5.1 7.6 43.7 22.8 12.3 4.1 4.4 100

VI 3.5 11.9 30.6 36.9 9.4 4.8 2.9 100

VII 5.0 7.2 41.5 28.2 11.6 4.7 1.8 100

VIII 4.1 12.6 36.5 30.7 10.7 5.5 100

How to read the table: In Std III, 78.2% (42.2 + 24.6+11.4) children are in age group
8 to 10.

Young children in pre-school and school

Table 3: % Children who attend Chart 3: Trends over time

different types of pre-school & school 2009 % Children age 3-4 not attending pre-school (ICDS or other)
2006-2009
anywhere

In School
Not going

Total

In balwadi
In LKG/
or
UKG Other
anganwadi Govt. Pvt.
School

Age 3 63.6 7.4 29.0 100.0

Age 4 64.6 16.6 18.8 100.0

Age 5 27.8 8.1 36.5 16.8 1.3 9.5 100.0

Age 6 6.0 3.2 64.7 20.3 1.5 4.3 100.0 Of the villages visited, Anganwadi/Pre-School presence has been recorded in 92.0 %
villages.