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lxvi• About 34 percent of children in control district and about one - fifth of children inintervention districts have scored up to 25 percent marks out of total score of 40 in theschool readiness instrument, while about 30 percent in intervention and 17 percent incontrol district have scored more than 50% marks. Thus overall scoring is better inintervention districts than control districts.• Male children and children belonging to SC and OBC are marginally better in overallscoring on school readiness than other children (Table 7.3 and Table 7.4)Table 7.3: Distribution of children aged 5-5.5 years by quartiles on overall scoring on schoolreadiness according to gender of the child(Percentage)Quartiles onTotal Janjgir and korbaControl district (Raigarh)scoringIntervention AWCs Intermediate AWCs Control AWCsMale Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total(n=) 192 194 386 232 172 404 240 218 458< 25% 19.8 22.2 21 22.4 20.9 21.8 33.3 35.8 34.5-25.1-50% 55.2 43.8 49.5 50.4 52.3 51.2 50.4 47.2 48.950.1-75% 18.2 30.9 24.6 25.4 23.3 24.5 16.3 15.1 15.7>75% 6.8 3.1 4.9 1.7 3.5 2.5 0 1.8 0.9Table 7.4: Distribution of children aged 5-5.5 years by quartiles on overall scoring on schoolreadiness according to caste(Percentage)Quartiles onscoringTotal Janjgir and korbaControl district(Raigarh)Intervention AWCs Intermediate AWCs Control AWCsSC ST OBC SC ST OBC SC ST OBC(n=) 77 105 197 67 133 191 148 76 227< 25% 18.2 23.8 20.8 16.4 31.6 17.3 23 43.4 39.225.1-50% 53.2 52.4 47.2 40.3 51.1 56.5 55.4 50 44.150.1-75% 23.4 19 27.9 38.8 16.5 23.6 21.6 6.6 15>75% 5.2 4.8 4.1 4.5 0.8 2.6 0 0 1.8The school readiness instrument includes three categories of competencies – premathematical concepts , umber concepts , language skills and reading readiness. All the 10activities listed out in the instrument have been classified into these three categories andoverall score obtained by children have been worked out by their sex and caste. The nextsections discuss about them one by one.Baseline Study Of Early Childhood Care And Development Project In ChattisgarhApril,2012