Education and Learning: Preliminary Findings from the Round 4 Survey in India

This fact sheet presents preliminary findings from the fourth round of the Young Lives survey of children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2013. It reports on children’s learning and some of the changes that have taken places in key education indicators for our sample children over the eleven years since the first round of data collection in 2002. Enrolment is now almost universal and only 3% of children are not attending school at age 12. This improvement in access to elementary-level education has particularly benefited girls and Scheduled Caste children. We also find that the number of children attending private schools has increased from 32% in 2006 to 41% in 2013, but gaps in are widening between boys attending private (46%) and girls (34%), and between children from better-off households and poorer children (only 15% in private school). When we look at achievement levels, we see little difference between when boys and girls, but inequalities emerging with children from rural areas, from poorer households and whose mothers had less education continuing to fare worse than their peers