Literal question
(8) Follow-up question for children 5-14 years
[Questions 1-21 were asked of persons who were 5-14 years old.]
If code 2 or 3 in question 3
[Questions 13-21 were asked of children who were not currently attending school, per question 3.]
13. Reason for not currently attending:
[] 01 Too young to go to school
[] 02 Unable to cope-up
[] 03 School facility/higher level education facility not available
[] 04 To participate in household economic activity
[] 05 To work for wage/salary
[] 06 To take care of sibling
[] 07 To attend household chores: by preference
[] 08 To attend household chores: as other members engaged in work
[] 09 Cannot afford
[] 10 Not interested
[] 19 Others
Interviewer instructions
5.8.0 Block 8: Follow-up questions for children aged 5-14 years: This block, which will be filled in only for persons aged5-14 years in children, is meant to record the education and activity profile of children. The details to be recorded include school attendance particulars, work related activity, etc. The time reference for identifying the activities pursued by children will be strictly that followed in either block 4 or block 5. Instead a reasonable regularity activity will be the criteria. A child will be considered working if he has spent at least a day any work with some regularity which may be seasonal.
5.8.13 Column (13): Reason for not currently attending:
(i) Column (13) onwards will be filled in for children who are not currently attending school. Some of the children who are not currently attending are those who did not attend school any time in the past. They will have code 3 in col.(3). There will be some others who are not currently attending any school but did so sometimes in the past and the left the school. They will have code 2 in col.(3).
(ii) For those with code 3 in col.(3), the reason code to be recorded in col.(13) will relate to the reason for not attending school at all. For those with code 2 in col.(3), the entry in col.(13) will relate to the reason for leaving the study. Although the code structure has been kept same for both the groups. For example, code 1 is not applicable to the drop out cases (i.e., children with code 2 in col.(3). Similarly, code 2 is not applicable to the children who never attended a school (i.e., children with code 3 in col. (3)). The codes to be used are as follows:
01. Too young to go to school
02. Unable to cope-up
03. School facility/higher level education facility not available
04. To participate in household economic activity
05. To work for wage/salary
06. To take care of sibling
07. To attend household chores: by preference
08. To attend household chores: as other members engaged in work
09. Cannot afford
10. Not interested
19. Others
Too young to go to school (code 1) will apply to those in the age-group 5-6 years and are not attending school either because of their parent's perception of the child being too small to go to school or unable to attend school due to school admission regulations regarding age. Code 2 will apply to those who drop out as they are not able to cope up with the studies. Such cases can be identified as drop outs due to repeated failures etc. This should be distinguished from code 10 i.e. 'not interested'. Not interested will be those who do not attend school or drop out because of lack of motivation to start or continue schooling. Persons who think schooling is futile and hence discontinue their schooling will also get code 10. Cannot afford (code 9) will be assigned to those who are not attending school due to financial difficulties in buying books, dress or payment of fees etc. Other codes are self-explanatory. In case of multiple codes the code appearing first will be given.