Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

18 Student Flow at Primary Levelnot made available. Since both these estimates are available for the ruralareas, first a comparison is made across age-groups. While IMRB defined6-13 years age-group as those children who are above 13 years but below14 years, ASER: PRATHAM produced estimates for 6-14, but has not specifiedwhat exactly this means. In this comparison, it is assumed that bothestimates are relevant to the same age group. As against 6.6 percentchildren not enrolled in schools as estimated by ASER: PRATHAM, thecorresponding figure reported by IMRB for the age-group 6-14 years is7.80 percent. Though in percentage terms,the difference is not significantbut in absolute terms the same may be wide in view of the size of thechild population in the rural areas, which is estimated to be 145.54 millionFigure 4Percentage of Enrolled Children (6-13 Years) by Type of School: IMRB-International & ASER: PRATHAM, 2005(total 194.03 million) by IMRB; thus indicating 9.61 million (ASER) and11.35 million (IMRB) children of 6-13/14 years age-group out-of-school.It may also be noted that total child population projected by the IMRB isvery close to the one estimated by the office of the Registrar General ofIndia (193 million). However, significant deviation is noticed separatelyin both 6-11 and 11-13 years child population. In other words this indicatesa difference of 1.75 million, which is 1.20 percent of the total 145.54million child population. Further, the percentage of un-enrolled childrenin the age-group 6-10 years in the rural areas suggests that as many as6.92 percent children are out-of-school as per in the IMRB survey (6.74million) compared to 4.6 percent (4.48 million) in case of ASER-PRATHAMsurvey; this indicates a difference of 2.26 million which is 2.32 percent oftotal 97.42 million child population of age-group 6-10 years (Table 4).