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Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 was released yesterday.

The national survey sheds light on learning outcomes in schools & is led by the Pratham Foundation.

Here are a few statistics that you can use in the #UPSC Mains Exam!

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#ASER2022

•Around 7 lakh candidates from 19,060 schools in 616 districts were surveyed to calculate the learning outcomes post-pandemic on school children.

Statistics to remember📝:

•Nearly all (98.4%) students in the age bracket of 6-14 years are now enrolled in schools.
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Enrollment rate in 2022 HIGHEST since the introduction of the Right to Education Act in 2009. Eg:

•In 2010: 96.6%
•In 2014: 96.7%
•In 2018: 97.2%
•In 2022: 98.4%

GOVT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT:

•There has been an increase of 7.3% in government school enrollment in the period 2018 to 2022.

•Manipur had the lowest govt school enrollment rate among all NE states

SURGE IN STUDENTS ATTENDING TUITION CLASSES between 2018 & 2022 in all states:

•The state with highest % of students going for tuitions is Bihar (71.7%), followed by Manipur (53.4%) & Jharkhand (45.3%)

•The exceptions are Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Tripura

ATTENDANCE IN RURAL INDIA:

•The attendance of students in rural areas was nearly 72%.

•UP, MP, Bihar,Tripura among states with lowest attendance rate

•Maharashtra, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu have over 86% enrolled students attending schools

Improvement in AVAILABILITY OF SMARTPHONES

•As per ASER 2021,1 in 3 students belonging to classes 1 & 2 didn’t attend school in person due to reasons like lack of digital access.

•In 2022,the availability of smartphones in homes of enrolled students has nearly doubled from⬇️

Smartphone availability in 2018: 36.5%

In 2021: 67.6%

But the rise has been highly uneven among states.

% of CHILDREN NOT GOING TO SCHOOL:

• It has dropped to 2% or below for the first time in 2022

•Even after prolonged school closures during the pandemic period, proportion of children not enrolled in school continued to decline between 2018 and 2022.

DIP IN READING & MATH ABILITIES of class 2 students:

• from 6.7 % in 2018 to 2.2 % in 2022

“This fall is a huge drop & confirms fears of large learning losses caused by the pandemic.”

IMPROVEMENT IN RTE INDICATORS:

•Around 68.9% schools have a playground, up slightly from 66.5% in 2018. 
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Only minor difference in learning levels by gender:

•At an all India level,there’s little difference in the learning levels of children by their gender

•Variations exist across states. Eg:in all southern states & in Maharashtra,girls outperform boys in both reading & math⬇️