There are various agencies involved in the collection and dissemination of statistics on school education. At the national level, there are three main agencies that collect statistics on education on regular basis. They are (a) Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Division, Department of Education, MHRD on annual basis for all sectors of school education; (b) University Grants Commission on higher education; and (c) National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on school education through occasional surveys. In addition, there are agencies, which collect information from households. The Census of India publications provides information on levels of educational attainment of population and age-education classification of children in the age-group 5-14 years. In addition, the National Sample Survey
Organization (NSSO), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) also collect statistics on educational variables occasionally through household sample surveys.
Barring Census of India, most of the other agencies generate data with State/UT as a basic unit of consolidation but hardly any data is disseminated at the district level. Only in case of the MHRD, selected district level information was also disseminated on quinquennial basis for a short period. The UGC compiles data according to university area, whereas NCERT collects data at the district level but releases only state-specific information. The latest sixth survey was conducted in 1993 with September 30 as its date of reference. The dissemination of district-specific survey data is left to the discretion of the states. All the states do not bring out publications that contain district-specific data. The Directorate of Education, Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Directorate of Economics etc. in a State/UT also brings out statistical abstracts and other publications but the data that they disseminate is not uniform and the year also varies from state to state. Thus, it can safely be concluded that proper mechanism for dissemination of district-specific information is not in existence in most part of the country.
Sporadic attempts have been made to develop computerized educational management
information system with an aim to collect and disseminate district-specific
information among which the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) is the
most prominent one. One of the important aims of the recently launched SSA is to develop educational management information system for which data capture formats have been evolved and infrastructure created at the district level in the office of the District Project Coordinator. All the project districts have been provided with adequate hardwares and MIS softwares. The data capture format is divided into nine parts. Through the first part, school location particulars are envisaged to collect which includes village name and ward number, distance from block headquarters, number of non-formal education centres in a village and whether the school is governed by a voluntary organization or it is a Government school. This part also includes information relating to Total Literacy Campaigns and Post Literacy Facilities and whether a Village Education Committee is constituted in the village. The other important items included in the format are school particulars, teachers in position, equipments and facilities in terms of adequacy. So far as the information relating to enrolment and repeaters is concerned, all that required for planning at district level including the age-grade matrix is envisaged to collect. However, rural/urban distribution will not be made available.By the end of 2003, the coverage of DISE has extended to about 460 of the 593
districts of the country. these districts are spread over 18 DPEP states. It is
expected that all the districts of the country would adopt DISE in a year or
two. The Government of India decided that the manual collection of information
system will gradually be replaced by the DISE and the statistics generated by it
will be accorded the status of the Official Statistics. Recently ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION IN INDIA: WHERE DO WE STAND, ANALYTICAL REPORT 2006 was also launched. Barring a few numeric indicators, most of the indicators required for efficient planning at the district level is
now available through the DISE. The number of schools, enrolment, teachers, pupil-teacher ratio, literacy rates etc.
is available over a period of time. however, district-wise information is not
available from the MHRD sources. But information on school education is available from the All-India Educational Surveys but the same is not properly disseminated
and it is latest available for 2002-03..
The computation of many of the identified indicators need age-specific population which is generally not readily available at the district level and for that propose population projection exercises would have to be initiated. Even though the raw data is available, it is not an easy task to compute indicators especially when the number of districts is more than
600. Because of DPEP and SSA interventions, awareness about indicators and
its use in planning elementary education has significantly improved in the
recent past. It is happy to note that all the districts across the country
now develop annual elementary education plans which are primarily based on
the DISE data.
More details about the information system is presented in the following components.
Please note that many of these articles/reports have become old and need
updating.
EMIS in Ghana
EMIS in Cambodia
EMIS in Iraq
NFE-MIS in Southern Sudan
Monitoring in Nepal
District
Information System for Education (DISE) Documents
Quantitative Expansion
Educational Information System in India: Gaps and Limitations and Suggestions for Improvements
All India Educational
Surveys
MIS Under DPEP
Data Requirements for Educational Planning
Indicators of Educational Development: Definitions & Real Life Data
Development and Utilization of MIS for Literacy Programmes
Need of Developing Local Level Information System
DISE Flash Statistics & EDI:
2006-07
State Report Cards: 2005-06
Analytical Report: 2005-06
District Report Cards: 2005-06 (Volume I)
District Report Cards: 2005-06
(Volume II)
Student Flow at Primary Level
Elementary Education in Rural &
Urban India
Report of Common School System
11th Five Year Plan: Elementary Education & SSA
DISE Flash Statistics & EDI
Presentation on EDI
Suggestive Framework for EDI
Computation
1 Million+ School Report Cards
Elementary Education in India: Analytical Report
2005
Elementary Education in India:
Analytical Report 2005
(Only Tables)
Selected Educational Statistics: 2004-05
State Report Cards 2005
Elementary Education in Rural
India 2005
Elementary Education in Urban India 2005
District Report Cards 2005
(Volume I)
District Report Cards 2005
(Volume II)
Drop-out Rates based on DISE 2004 & 2005 Data
Elementary Education in India:
Analytical Report 2004
Major Findings of Analytical Report 2004
Elementary Education in Unrecognised Schools in
India:
A
Study of Punjab
Universalisation of Secondary Education: CABE
Committee Report
Right to Education Bill 2005
Elementary Education in India: State Report Cards
2004
Elementary Education in India: District Report
Cards 2004
Elementary Education in India: District Report
Cards 2003
Elementary Education in India: Where do we stand?
Analytical Report 2003
Final
District-specific Population & Literacy Data
(Zip)
District Report Cards 2003, Raw Data
(Zip)
Projected Population (5-18 Year) by RGI up to
2016
Age-specific Population: 6-11, 11-14 & 6-14 Year
Population
Modules for
Quantitative Analysis of Educational Data
Down Load:
Software for Education Planning & Management
Latest Additional School
Statistics: 2006-07
District Report Cards: 2007-08, Volume I & II
10th Joint Review Mission Report (July 20 to 31,
2009)
DISE 2007-08: District-specific Data on All
Indicators
State Report Cards: 2007-08, Raw Data
District Report Cards: 2007-08, Volume I & II
10th Joint Review Mission Report (July 20
to 31, 2009)
DISE 2007-08: District-specific Data on All
Indicators
Elementary Education in Rural India 2007-08
Elementary Education in Urban India 2007-08
DISE
Flash Statistics: 2007-08
State Report Cards: 2007-08
Review of EMIS in Cambodia, Iraq, Nepal and Southern-Sudan
DISE Flash Statistics: 2009-10
State Report Cards: 2008-09
Education Development Index & Analysis: DISE
2009-10
DISE Flash Statistics: 2008-09
Elementary Education in Rural India 2008-09
Elementary Education in Urban India 2008-09
Elementary Education in India: Analytical
Report (Last Seven Years)
Elementary Education in India: District
Report Cards (Last Eight Years)
Elementary Education in India: State Report
Cards (Last Eight Years)
Elementary Education in India: Flash
Statistics (Last Four Years)
U-DISE Publications: 2000-01 to 2013-14
Selected Educational Statistics of MHRD
Educational
Statistics at a Glance, MHRD, 2014
All India Survey on
Higher Education, MHRD, 2011-12, Key Results
All India School Education Surveys
(NCERT, 1st to 8th Survey)
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