Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2018

Aser Centre

Since 2005, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has provided data from across the country on schooling and the ability of children (in the 3-16 age group) to do basic reading and arithmetic.Coordinated by Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation Pratham, the ASER survey is carried out in almost all districts of the country by representatives of NGOs, colleges, universities, district-level educational institutes and teacher training institutes, among other entities. ASER 2018 is the report of the 13th such annual survey in 596 districts, which covered 354,944 households and 546,527 children, and 15,998 government schools. The report also compares data on enrollment and attendance, reading and arithmetic, and school facilities collected by ASER surveys between 2005 and 2018.This 344-page report is divided into 12 chapters: Commentary (chapter 1); About ASER (chapter 2); The national picture (chapter 3); India (chapter 4); Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh (chapter 5); Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand (chapter 6); Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya (chapter 7); Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim (chapter 8); Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (chapter 9); Divisional estimates (chapter 10); ASER 2018 process documents (chapter 11) and Annexures (chapter 12).