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Statistics on Education in India

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Educational statistics assume greater significance today than ever in view of the structural and systematic changes that are rapidly taking place in the social and economic sectors in India. The chapter reviews the current status of educational statistics, identify and discuss problems relating to educational statistics including their reliability, comparability of data collected by various institutions, gaps in data and the bottlenecks in their timely processing and dissemination, and outline important strategies for streamlining and improving the whole system.

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This chapter is authored jointly with P.R. Panchmukhi and K.K. Biswal. This heavily draws from Tilak and Panchamukhi (2001).

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Tilak, J.B.G. (2018). Statistics on Education in India. In: Education and Development in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0250-3_20

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