NMICS 2010 Report - Central Bureau of Statistics

VIII.Child DevelopmentEarly childhood education and learningAttendance of preschoolers in an organized learning or child education programme is important inreadying children for formal school.Table CD.1 shows that one third (32 percent) of children aged 36–59 months in the MFWR werecurrently attending early childhood education. There was little variation by region or gender.Subregionally, the highest percentage was in the Mid-Western Terai (48 percent) and the lowest wasin the Far Western Mountains (20 percent). Children living in urban areas (40 percent) were morelikely to attend early childhood education than those living in rural areas (32 percent). Children aged36–47 months (21 percent) were less likely to attend than those aged 48–59 months (45 percent).Mother’s education level and the household’s wealth status influenced the likelihood of attendancein early childhood education. Only 26 percent of children whose mother had no education attendedcompared to 42 percent of children whose mother had primary education and 47 percent of childrenwhose mother had at least secondary education. Some 16 percent of children living in the pooresthouseholds attended early childhood education compared to 50 percent of children from the richesthouseholds.121