National Sample Survey 64th Round (Expenditure in Education)

Report on 64 th round NSS : Participation and Expenditure in Educationo upper primary/middle,o secondary,o higher secondary,o diploma/ certificate course,o graduate,o post-graduate and above.It may be noted that if a person has successfully passed the final year of a given level,then only he/ she will be considered to have attained that level of education. Forexample, for a person studying in Class IX the educational level will be middle andnot secondary.2.1.4 Level of current attendance: The term in the present report refers to the stageof education that a student is currently pursuing, if any. For example, the level ofcurrent attendance of a person studying in Class IX will be secondary. Here thecategories are:never attended;ever attended but currently not attending;currently attending in:o non-formal education,o pre-primary (nursery/ kindergarten, etc.),o primary,o upper primary or middle,o secondary,o higher secondary,o diploma or certificate (below graduate level)o diploma or certificate (graduate and above level)o graduation level degree courseso post-graduation and above degree coursesIn the schedule used for data collection, the ‘levels’ of current attendance, at thehigher stages of education, referred to more specific categories indicating not onlystage of education but also subject of study. Thus, graduate in agriculture andgraduate in medicine were given different ‘level codes’.2.1.5 Literate: A person is considered literate if he/she can read and write a simplemessage in atleast one language with understanding.NSS Division, Department of Economics and Statistics, Kerala 8