The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) survey report has been released today. As per the report, overall 86.8 per cent of 14-18-year-olds are enrolled in educational institutions.
The report also noted that while there are gender gaps in enrollment, they are not as prominent by age. For youth aged 14 and 18, the percentage of not enrolled youth is 3.9% and 32.6%, respectively. The report from the previous year indicated that the percentage of children enrolled in the 6–14 age group had increased from 96.6% in 2010 to 96.7% in 2014, 97.2% in 2018, and 98.4% in 2022.
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a national household survey that offers an overview of the state of children’s education in rural India. The “basic” ASER survey was first administered in 2005. It was carried out yearly until 2014, after that it was moved to an alternate-year cycle in 2016. The “basic” ASER gathers data on preschool and school enrollment for kids between the ages of three and sixteen. It also conducts one-on-one assessments with kids between the ages of five and sixteen to determine their basic math and reading skills.
Interestingly, in Class 11 or higher, more than half of the students are enrolled in the Arts/Humanities stream (55.7 per cent), followed by STEM (31.7 per cent) and Commerce (9.4 per cent). Females are less likely to be enrolled in the STEM stream (28.1 per cent) than males (36.3 per cent).
