13th ASER Report, 2018

Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2018 has been published by a non-profit NGO Pratham.

ASER 2018 is a nation-wide household survey that provides information of children’s schooling and learning for a representative sample of children across rural India. ASER continues to be the only national source of information about children’s foundational skills across the country.
  • Children in the age group 3 to 16 are surveyed to find out their enrollment status in school or pre-school.
  • Children in the age group 5 to 16 are assessed one-on-one to understand their basic reading and arithmetic abilities.
  • ASER 2016 followed the ‘basic’ model; sampling children age 3 to 16 for survey and testing reading, arithmetic, and English for children age 5 to 16.
  • In 2017, ASER conducted the first alternate-year design known as ASER ‘Beyond Basics’, focusing on youth in the 14 to 18 age group.
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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