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Barriers to expansion of mass literacy and primary schooling in West Bengal: Study based on primary data from selected villages

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  • V.K. Ramachandran

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

  • Madhura Swaminathan

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

  • Vikas Rawal

    (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

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This paper examines factors affecting literacy and access to school education in West Bengal, India, and reports the results of a binomial probit model estimated with primary data from ten villages of West Bengal. In the analysis of adult literacy, the significant variables were sex, caste and occupational status and village location. In the probit results for educational achievements of children of ages 6 to 16 years in the same villages, however, occupational status was not statistically significant. In contemporary West Bengal, we argue, class barriers to school attendance have become less significant; other features of educational deprivation persist.

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  • V.K. Ramachandran & Madhura Swaminathan & Vikas Rawal, 2003. "Barriers to expansion of mass literacy and primary schooling in West Bengal: Study based on primary data from selected villages," Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers 345, Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India.
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    Education; literacy; India; West Bengal;
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    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education

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